Repo syntax issue rhel/centos
 

Hello again,

i need to understand once for all the syntax of files.repo.

When i need a repository i create under /etc/yum.repos.d/ the repository file

goofy.repo

with this syntax

[repository_name]
[goofy]
baseurl=ftp:///mydirectory/myrepodir
gpgcheck=0

---
Myrepodir contains all the *.rpm files i need

when i exit and save i get anytime this error

What am i wrong for? How can i just say to my rhel/centos system
"Ehy, for rpm look inside /mydirectory/myrepo" ?

Thanks

baseurl=ftp:///mydirectory/myrepodir should probably read baseurl=ftp://myserver/mydirectory/myrepodir. If that was a typo then check if /mydirectory/myrepodir/repodata/repomd.xml exists on the server, if the user has access rights elif check your FTP daemon logs for clues.

So i should create an repond.xml file for repository or it won't work?

Try 'yum info createrepo'.

This is the command's output.

I'd rather create manually my repo file than using the tool.
Oh, maybe it's a clue that my release is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ? (i have a code but i still have not inserted)

No sweat. Generally speaking Linux is all about freedom: the freedom to install documentation but not use it, the freedom to not look up protocols and standards, the freedom to pay for Licensing but not use it, the freedom to (not) learn from doing things as inefficiently as possible, the freedom to fsck up intentionally and still be unencumbered to ask for (and ignore) advice.
A lot of people handle these freedoms well :-]

I'm trying to understand this as well, sometimes to understand concepts you need more time to look its application.
And i still trying to understand if Rhel is free or not :confused:

Last person i said "i'm using red hat" replied "ehy, rhel it's for payment why you don't switch to centOs?" :confused:

I will try to understand this damned repomd.xml what does it need

OK, then go do that, the repodata format isn't a secret. The "genpkgmetadata.py" from the createrepo package is just a Python script, I'm sure Red Hat or Fedora or the Yum developers have repodata documentation and if you search around you'll find informative articles like The Anatomy of a yum repository - a look under the hood of the Skype repo for i586.


You can run Red Hat without buying support but getting updates via RHN requires a subscription. If you want to know more then invest time reading. Red Hat has had proper documentation since releasing Red Hat Linux, they have a web site full of information (including licenses) and else representatives you can contact.


I'm not going to comment on that except to say it depends on the context and who's making the statement.

https://code.google.com/p/iredmail/w...Yum_Repository - a howto on creating a repo from ISOs.

on RHEL
THAT is a SHOW STOPPER
you are dead in the water until you register it with red hat and buy the required license

-- options --
install the current ( AND FREE ) CentOS 6.3
or buy $$$ the red hat license
or
port the RHEL install to cent -- it is relatively easy .


red hat is "free"
yes and no
free to use
BUT you do not install any software that is not on the install disk
and that IS OUT OF DATE

you are paying red hat for the bug fixes and software updates and for the tech support

This is the second time i wrote to Rhel for support and licensing and they didn't reply at all, I guess i will activate my license number so i will be able to ask about pricing.

CentOs will be installed on my laptop.

Thank you anyway..

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel.
 

I get the error message above when trying to install xrdp from epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm. My machine is a registered RHN RHEL6.2 server. I unsuccessfully tried "yum clean all" and "yum info createrepo" , but I still get the same error. Is there a config file somewhere that I can point to the /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repomd.xml file?

When I do a locate command to find repomd.xml, I see it in other repositories, but not the /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/epel/ repository, which does infact, exist next to the other repos that RHEL 6 does see as shown below:

[root@DOCLNXTC1 herrscherk]# locate repomd.xml
/root/.itc-deployment/repo_cache/repodata/repomd.xml
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/dvd/repomd.xml
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repomd.xml