[mirror-admin] repomd.xml problems

[David Ramirez]

Hi,
I'm in the process of becoming a private Fedora mirror for my lab use 
(60+ boxes).

So far I have replicated the file structure from my chosen mirror and 
rsync-ed against it.

After that an have a cron job periodically updating my updates subtree, 
it seems to work OK.

But I have problems with the releases part of my mirror, since naturally 
I want to pull my new installs from there, using NFS.

This had worked before with an unofficial, non-standard structure, but 
now my installs die complaining of not finding a repomd.xml file for the 
group descriptions.

I have exhausted different suggestions found in the web without hitting 
the solution - from using createrepo and creating my own repository 
metadata (although not seeing that repomd.xml file produced in the 
process), to having the original repodata directory obtained from the 
official mirror, to copying that file from the updates directory (hoping 
it is the same: createrepo instructions always assume that I already 
have one such file for the -g option).

I have run createrepo -g inside and outside the Packages directory, 
seems to end OK, but the end result is always the same, the net-based 
install of a new host failing shortly after package selection, while the 
NFS mount is (apparently) OK.

Error message has been normally related to missing group info/the 
rempomd.xml file, but after doing the last mentioned copy now the 
install breaks searching (I presume) for the 1st rpm package ("The file 
authconfig-gtk... cannot be opened").

Shouldn't the downloaded (as part of the mirror image) group information 
dated May 12 just work ?

May be somebody out there can point me in the right direction ?

Thanks



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DAVID RAMIREZ
System Administrator - Analyst II
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Parasol Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
HR Bright 410D
College Station, TX  77843-3112
Tel. (979) 845-3937
davidr at cse.tamu.edu

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