how to make a local repository after a yum update?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 20:46, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>With the old version of yum documentation basically said
>"run yum-arch on a directory with rpm packages and you are set".
>Now yum-arch is gone (although 'man yum' still tells you to
>look at 'man yum-arch',
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131807 )
>
>There is something new in 'yum --help' called "generate-rss" which
>may be it.  OK, let's try:
>
># yum -c local.conf generate-rss
>Generating RSS File
>Setting up Repo:  update
>repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or
>directory: '/mnt/spare/updates/packages/repodata/repomd.xml'
>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update
>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from update: [Errno 256] No more
>mirrors to try.
>
>Hm, we are just trying to generate that stuff so "No such file or
>directory" seems to be about normal.  There is somethings which
>says "--rss-filename=[path/filename]", which is a bit weird as
>it obviously knows what it wants to read, but playing with that
>also brings no joy.  Touching
> /mnt/spare/updates/packages/repodata/repomd.xml results in 
> something even more creative:
>
>//var/cache/yum/update/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is
> empty
>
>Surprise!  We are trying to generate it (or something close).
>
>In a total absence of a documentation I am somewhat reluctant
>to call that a bug and file in bugzilla.  Should I?
>
>  Michal

You at least have company, I went down that road also, and as you 
said, no joy...


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