[mirror-admin] repomd.xml problems

[Nick Olsen]

  On 9/8/2010 1:19 PM, David Ramirez wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Try HTTP?
I ran a private mirror for quite some time when toying with some cluster 
ideas. Just did an rsync of the fedora enchilada and I could http net 
install all day long. Never tried NFS. Anything useful in the NFS logs?

-Nick

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