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Tyler Jandreau
Tyler Jandreau

Reputation: 4335

YUM not respecing my installation group

I've created a custom local repository. I'm attempting to install several hundred custom RPMs by using a yum group, but a cursory attempt has failed. yum is not recognizing my group. I've tried yum grouplist | grep mygroup but it comes up empty.

I've made an rpm, and defined it's group as follows in groups.xml:

   <!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN" "comps.dtd">
    <comps>
      <group>
       <id>mygroup</id>
       <default>False</default>
       <uservisible>True</uservisible>
       <display_order>1024</display_order>
       <name>mygroup</name>
       <description></description>
        <packagelist>
          <packagereq type="mandatory">rpm1</packagereq>
                 ...
          <packagereq type="mandatory">rpmN</packagereq>
        </packagelist>
      </group>
    </comps>

I create the repo in the correct directory using createrepo -g groups.xml .

Then I made the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d which pointed to this location.

[JARSS]
name = This is the thing
baseurl = file:///this/is/the/path

I know this worked because commands like yum install rpmN work, but yum groupinstall mygroup do not.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 728

Answers (1)

Forrest
Forrest

Reputation: 1440

When you run the createrepo -g command you need to specify the path as well. Such as createrepo -g groups.xml /this/is/the/path, you should also be placing the groups.xml file in the /this/is/the/path/ directory (with all the RPMs). I figure you're doing the second part from your question, but I'm not sure about the first part. If you've done that, and you still aren't seeing the group running yum grouplist, have you run a yum clean all to ensure the data is refreshed?

Upvotes: 1

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