On Tue 27 May 2003 09:53, Robert Fox posted as excerpted below: > The problem has been as follows: when Cooker is out of Sync (when the > Mandrake/base files don't match up with the contents of the RPMS) - then > an install will fail or have problems. > > So I learned to always run a "mkcd --check" against my local Cooker > tree. If I get errors (like duplicates) I then have to run gendistrib > against it to make sure everything is syncronized. Presently gendistrib > fails on me because it can't find the SPMS root directory - which I have > never had locally - because up until now I've never needed it. So now I > can't perform a network install until I get gendistrib working properly.
OK, I admit I haven't done a gendistrib myself, so I don't know what I am talking about, but isn't the simplest thing to create the appropriate SRPMs dir yourself? I'm not sure "root" means "root" in this case, as it might mean the mirror root, but if it were me, I'd either take apart the script and figure it out, or experiment with placing the SRPMS dir in various places until it either worked or I got a different error or I tried all the logical places and gave up. Maybe one could take an educated guess from the layout in either the online mirrors or the ISO image.. BTW, it's possible all it needs is the empty dir. Maybe not, but I'd create one and see if that changed the error, at least. .. Or am I missing the obvious somewhere here? .. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
