corrupt package message during FC5 install from NFS.

[Aggarwal, VikasX]

comps.xml is in different folder(listed below).

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Nasrat [mailto:pnasrat at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:15 PM
To: Aggarwal, VikasX
Cc: Anaconda-devel-list at redhat.com; fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: corrupt package message during FC5 install from NFS.

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:05 -0700, Aggarwal, VikasX wrote:
> Thanks !!
> Now I have this error for my custom distro.
>      " Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing
> repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been
> correctly generated. failure: repodata/repomd.xml  from anaconda:
[Errno
> 256] No more mirros to try."
> 
> I am doing anaconda --test -m nfs:/fedora

ls /fedora
ls /fedora/repodata

I'd expect

/fedora/base
/fedora/RPMS
/fedora/repodata

Then repomd.xml primary.xml.gz and some other files in repodata:

comps.xml
filelists.xml.gz
other.xml.gz
primary.xml.gz
repomd.xml

comps.xml is in different folder(listed below).

[root at puru i386]# ls
autorun   Fedora  images    README                RELEASE-NOTES
RPM-GPG-KEY       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora          RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
eula.txt  GPL     isolinux  README-Accessibility  repodata
RPM-GPG-KEY-beta  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide  RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
[root at puru i386]# pwd
/Fedora5/fc3/i386
[root at puru i386]# ls
autorun   Fedora  images    README                RELEASE-NOTES
RPM-GPG-KEY       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora          RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
eula.txt  GPL     isolinux  README-Accessibility  repodata
RPM-GPG-KEY-beta  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide  RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
[root at puru i386]# ls -l repodata
total 7836
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2238587 Apr 20 17:58 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4993169 Apr 20 17:58 other.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  761837 Apr 20 17:58 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     951 Apr 20 17:58 repomd.xml
[root at puru i386]# uname -a
Linux puru 2.6.15-1.1955_FC5hypervisor #1 SMP Wed Feb 15 16:21:02 EST
2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at puru i386]# which anaconda
/usr/sbin/anaconda
[root at puru i386]# la -a
bash: la: command not found
[root at puru i386]# ls -a
.   autorun    eula.txt  GPL     isolinux  README
RELEASE-NOTES  RPM-GPG-KEY       RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
..  .discinfo  Fedora    images  .olddata  README-Accessibility
repodata       RPM-GPG-KEY-beta  RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
[root at puru i386]# find . | grep comps.xml
./.olddata/comps.xml
./Fedora/base/comps.xml
[root at puru i386]# ls -l ./.olddata/comps.xml  ./Fedora/base/comps.xml
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 698401 Apr  5 09:22 ./Fedora/base/comps.xml
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 698401 Apr 20 17:44 ./.olddata/comps.xml
[root at puru i386]#
Paul