[lug] kickstart and group files

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Hugh,

Thanks!  There's also a bzgrep.  I'd forgotten.

But createrepo doesn't fail at all -- it succeeds just fine.  It's the
kickstart process that's choking.  (I'm inferring from this that kickstart
looks at files that createrepo isn't modifying.)

It'd be useful to see what files in the repository kickstart is reading.
The repository is on an F8 box, and I don't know how to get the atimes that
would tell me.

And yep, there are hack-arounds.  (What you suggest is roughly one of the
ones we've used, though we're not using yum.)  You have to admit, though,
it'd be nice to do it in what seems to be the intended and documented way.
And to understand why that way is failing in such whacky ways.

Plus, if I could make it work, I might learn something.  First time for
everything.  :-)



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:43:16AM -0600, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> > Charlie,
> >
> > I'm getting all this from an HTTP server, not a CD or some other hard
> > media.  It means I build my metadata on a real, F8 server and use it
> from
> > there.  Unfortunately, because it's F8, I can't tell what's actually
> being
> > read from the atime, but I actually have to use this server setup.
> >
>
> Our solution was to create a separate yum repository in the %post section
> of the kickstart and then use yum to install the extra software (though we
> use nfs to do it).  You could write the script(s) to do all of this, put it
> on the web server and then use a wget <script> in the post section and then
> call the script after that.
>
> zgrep will let you look in gzipped files.  I also would have run the
> createrepo with the failing aztek group name through strace to see which
> files it was opening when it spit out the failure.
>
> Hugh
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