For my RHEL/CentOS 6-only repos, I use "-c cache --update -C" for createrepo flags.
For 5-only and 5/6, I use "-c cache -s sha"
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From: cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org]
On Behalf Of Greg Swift
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 12:57 PM
To: cobbler mailing list
Subject: Re: [cobbler] cobbler and centos 6.2
I dont know about the sha but i believe 5.8 got xz support in rpm. I:d be curious to see what happens if he updates.
On Apr 22, 2012 9:30 AM, "Jörgen Maas" <jorgen.maas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Russ Lavoy <ussray_00@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to update my systems to centos 6.2. I am having an issue with the repositories for 6.2 on a CentOS 5.7 Cobbler server. It tells me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
However, the repositories work just fine if I point an existing centos 6 server to them and try to install anything from them. Its only when I am kickstarting and trying to install over HTTP that this fails.
To get this to work, I had to remove the repmod.xml and redownload it from my internet source. Are the createrepo flags needing to be changed a bit to support both operating systems?
Because RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are compressed using the XZ lossless data compression format, and may also be signed using alternative (and stronger) hash algorithms such as SHA-256, it is
not possible to run createrepo
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to create the package metadata for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 packages. The
createrepo
command relies on
rpm
to open and inspect the packages, and
rpm
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not able to open the improved Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RPM package format.
HTH
--
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas
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