I dont know about the sha but i believe 5.8 got xz support in rpm. I:d be curious to see what happens if he updates. On Apr 22, 2012 9:30 AM, "Jörgen Maas" <jorgen.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Russ Lavoy <ussray...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to update my systems to centos 6.2. I am having an issue >> with the repositories for 6.2 on a CentOS 5.7 Cobbler server. It tells me >> "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem >> with the generation of your install tree." However, the repositories work >> just fine if I point an existing centos 6 server to them and try to install >> anything from them. Its only when I am kickstarting and trying to install >> over HTTP that this fails. >> >> To get this to work, I had to remove the repmod.xml and redownload it >> from my internet source. Are the createrepo flags needing to be changed a >> bit to support both operating systems? >> >> > From: > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/sec-Creating_a_Yum_Repository.html > > Because RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are compressed using > the XZ lossless data compression format, and may also be signed using > alternative (and stronger) hash algorithms such as SHA-256, it is not > possible to run createrepo on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to create the > package metadata for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 packages. The > createrepocommand relies on > rpm to open and inspect the packages, and rpm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux > 5 is not able to open the improved Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RPM package > format. > > HTH > > -- > Grtz, > Jörgen Maas > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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