HI Steven, I actually asked on IRC today and got a reply.
It's seems to be a bug with anaconda on Centos 6.4, it doesn't like the compressed groups.xml. The guy who replied to my question created an issue on bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950036 Bruno On 9 April 2013 18:58, Steven Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:17PM +0100, Bruno Savioli de Almeida wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have been using pulp for the last couple weeks and one the things I am > > trying to do is, to keep one centos 6 repository syncd daily from an > > upstream mirror (centos6_x86-64_latest) and periodically create copies of > > this repo (centos6_x86-64_20130409). > > > > I can do that without any major issues and I can use the copied > repository > > on any existing system. > > > > I am now trying to use the the copied repository or even the original > > synced repository as the install tree using cobbler, but I'm having some > > issues. > > > > Anaconda dies with this mesage: "SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid > > token): line1, column 0" message whenever it reads the group.xml.gz file > in > > the repodata directory > > > > If I create a new repo and copy only the distribution and rpms, anaconda > > fails obviously because it cannot find the group information. > > > > However, if I use the same upstream centos mirror directly, I can build > the > > vms without any problems... > > > > One difference I noticed is that group.xml.gz doesn't exist in the > upstream > > mirrors, instead they have comps.xml.gz, which I believe is the same > > content. > > > > Has anyone seen this happening before? > > on my todo list to do installs from a pulp repo but haven't gotten to it > yet. > > what pulp version are you using? there have been a number of repo fixes > in the 2.1 beta series... > > Steve > -- - Bruno
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