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YUM through ISO files with grouplist/groupinstall options

Dear All,

I have a CentOS 6.2 server and I am looking to have a way out to create a yum repository through ISO files for RHEL 5.X servers in which yum grouplist works.

There are numerous links/guides to create yum through ISO files, but I have not found any of them in which yum grouplist works OR repository is created through createrepo -g (where 'g' stands for group xml file)

Till date, I used to copy the contents of the ISO in some other directory (say /RPM). Now, I have a client's requirement to mount ISO files shared through CIFS and I am stuck.

Thankfully, this has been addressed in RHEL6.X, where you can directly use an ISO without using createrepo command.

Forgive my ignorance on this topic.

This one is actually from the archives
Source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sitory-571604/

Hope that helps

Quote:

This process is pretty easy, just two steps:

create a file in the groups format used by yum
tell createrepo to include that group file in your repository.
Step 1

You can either open a text editor and create the groups xml file manually or you can run the yum-groups-manager command from yum-utils.

Run the groups-create command like this:

yum-groups-manager -n "My Group" --id=mygroup --save=mygroups.xml --mandatory yum glibc rpm
And you'll end up with a file like this:

<!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>My group</name>
<description></description>
<packagelist>
<packagereq type="mandatory">glibc</packagereq>
<packagereq type="mandatory">rpm</packagereq>
<packagereq type="mandatory">yum</packagereq>
</packagelist>
</group>
</comps>
Step 2

To include this in a repository, just tell createrepo to use it when making or remaking your repository.

createrepo -g /path/to/mygroups.xml /srv/my/repo

Thanks Linux MR,

I solved the issue with an easier alternative. This is what I was missing.

On CentOS/RHEL 6.X machines, we have to use createrepo --checksum sha instead of only createrepo.

So these are my overall steps.

Code:

ln -s /path/to/mounted/iso/Server  /var/www/html/Server

createrepo --checksum sha -g /path/to/mounted/iso/Server/repodata/comps-*.xml /var/www/html/Server

Thanks all for your time and efforts.