yum and groupinstall

[Tom Murray]

I have setup a local repository containing several .rpm files. I created a
comps.xml file outlining the category and groups for the local repository.
However, when I issue the yum grouplist command, I get the following error:

*Failed to add groups file for repository: localRepo - comps file is
empty/damaged*

However, if I try to install one of the the packages in the repository, it
works just fine.

Here are the steps I took to create the repodata:

The comps.xml and repository are stored in the directory:
/var/www/html/myrepo/x86_64

cd /var/www/html/myrepo/x86_64
createrepo -g comps.xml .

This created a /var/www/html/myrepo/x86_64/repodata directory which contains
the comps.xml and comps.xml.gz file.



Here is my comps.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE comps PUBLIC "-//Red Hat, Inc.//DTD Comps info//EN"
"comps.dtd">
<comps>
  <group>
   <id>NodeManager</id>
   <default>true</default>
   <uservisible>true</uservisible>
   <display_order>1</display_order>
   <name>Node Manager</name>
   <description>This group manages the node system resources and
reports info back to the Service Manager.</description>
    <packagelist>
      <packagereq type="default">pxNodeManager-1.0-1</packagereq>
    </packagelist>
  </group>
  <category>
   <id>CustomSoftware</id>
   <display_order>1</display_order>
   <name>Custom Software </name>
   <description>Custom Software Suite </description>
    <grouplist>
     <groupid>NodeManager</groupid>
    </grouplist>
  </category>
</comps>