Bug 445397

Summary: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: extracdinstaller.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: James Laska <jlaska>
Component: relengAssignee: Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 5.2CC: borgan, chas.horvath, jturner, richard.johnson
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Fixed In Version: RHEA-2008-0436 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description James Laska 2008-05-06 17:20:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

The Supplementary tree is missing a repodata/ directory in the root of the tree.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL5.2-Server-Supplementary-20080501.0

How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL5.2-Server-20080430.0/x86_64
2. Login to gnome, and run
/mnt/redhat/rel-eng/RHEL5.2-Server-Supplementary-20080501.0/5/x86_64/os/autorun
3. Click Next
  
Actual results:
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
extracdinstaller. Please verify its path and try again

(see attached screenshot)

Expected results:


Additional info:

- It appears the presence of a repodata/ directory in the root of the tree fixes
this issue

- U1 has it ...
http://porkchop.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Server-Supplementary/U1/x86_64/os

- U2 doesn't ...
http://porkchop.redhat.com/rel-eng/RHEL5.2-Server-Supplementary-20080501.0/5/x86_64/os/

If I mirror the U2 Supplementary, and run createrepo ... that fixes the issue
Comment 1 James Laska 2008-05-06 17:20:44 UTC 
Created attachment 304663 [details]
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Comment 3 James Laska 2008-05-06 17:47:38 UTC 
NOTE: another fix appears to be modifying the autorun file as follows:

---
/mnt/redhat/rel-eng/RHEL5.2-Server-Supplementary-20080501.0/tree-x86_64/autorun
    2006-12-14 12:29:41.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/autorun        2008-05-06 13:46:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -8 +8 @@
-tree=$(pwd)
+tree=$(pwd)/Supplementary

This might help avoid duplication of the yum repodata directory.
Comment 5 Dennis Gregorovic 2008-05-07 19:55:57 UTC 
x86_64 Server Supplementary now being two discs caused the distill logic to skip
over the top-level repodata creation.  I've checked in a fix in Distill.

/mnt/redhat/rel-eng/RHEL5.2-Server-Supplementary-20080507.3/
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 17:55:00 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2008-0436.html