David,
Most CentOS repos also implement the sqlite db in addition to the xml in
repodata. The option to generate that is -d in createrepo.
This is something that I think also should be added by default to CentOS repos.
-Gordon
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Adurotec wrote:
> Figured out my problem, which turned out to be two issues.
>
> The first issue was that the kickstart file had some syntax errors that did
> not allow the install to remain non-interactive. Once I correct those issues
> the install continued up until my next problem.
>
> I received the following error during the kickstart install (truncated):
>
> "Unable to read packge metadata".
>
> Doing some digging around I found out that the Cobbler import feature for
> importing a distributions uses createrepo 0.9.7 with default settings and
> that as of January 2009 it has implemented sha256 as the default checksum
> method for repodata. Apparently yum and/or anaconda for CentOS 5.x seems to
> only support sha1 ("sha") checksums for repodata files so I had to run:
> createrepo -s sha -o . -g repodata/comps.xml .
> At the top of the tree to fix the issue.
>
> Here is the link to the Cobbler ticket that explains what fixed my issue:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/463
>
> Hope this info helps anyone having the same issue.
>
> David
>
>
> On 02/14/2010 10:07 AM, Adurotec wrote:
>>
>> Totally new to cobbler and I am having an issue with my initial installation
>> of version 1.6.6 which is installed on Fedora11 x86_64.
>>
>> I imported two CentOS 5.4 DVD iso's (i386 & x86_64), and setup a new box for
>> a pxe install and created a new profile with a custom kickstart file so I
>> could start my testing of cobbler. The server boots up and gets the install
>> menu which shows the default installs that were created when I imported the
>> ISO's plus the custom install I created. When I select my custom install I
>> see the kernel and initrd being installed but the install which was supposed
>> to be non-interactive fails to go non-interactive.
>>
>> I checked my apache logs and found the following:
>>
>> ==> access_log <==
>> 10.200.2.122 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:34 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/mboxmail-CentOS-5.4-i386 HTTP/1.0" 200 1328 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img HTTP/1.0" 404 319 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/updates.img HTTP/1.0" 404 325 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/product.img HTTP/1.0" 404 319 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/product.img HTTP/1.0" 404 325 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>>
>> ==> error_log <==
>> [Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
>> /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img
>> [Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
>> /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
>> [Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
>> /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/product.img
>> [Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
>> /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
>>
>> ==> access_log <==
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/stage2.img HTTP/1.0" 200 111767552 "-"
>> "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
>> 10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:23:13 +0000] "GET
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386//disc1/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 404 317 "-"
>> "urlgrabber/3.1.0"
>>
>> ==> error_log <==
>> [Sun Feb 14 15:23:13 2010] [error] [client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
>> /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
>>
>>
>> This explains why the non-interactive install is failing, but what I don't
>> understand is, the server is requesting
>> /cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/mboxmail-CentOS-5.4-i386 (which is the link found in
>> the install menu for the profile selected) but then the server requests
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img (which doesn't exist) and
>> /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/updates.img (which also does not
>> exist).
>>
>> The /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5/4-i386 is a sym link to
>> /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-5.4-i386 which ultimately points to the
>> CentOS-5.4-i386 ISO that was imported into cobbler.
>>
>> Is there some configuration change I need to make that didn't get set
>> correctly when I did the import?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> David
>>
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