From: "Frank Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In trying to upgrade 9.1 to Cooker from a local file mirror, I was > running gendistrib and getting the message "unable to find a valid root > directory which contains SRPMS". I didn't realize that this was > actually causing gendistrib to abort before updating the lists. > > My local cooker mirror only contains the i586 directory, since I didn't > think I needed source RPMs for anything. > > Is there a way to run gendistrib without SRPMS ? Is it correct that > gendistrib run against --distrib /xxx/cooker/i586 should be requiring > SRPMS ? >
add an empty SRPMS directory at the same level as the i586, and it will work... Regards Thomas
