"Thomas Backlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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...
or edit the Mandrake/base/hdlists and remove srpms entries. -- Warly
