[Yum] location of yumgroups.xml (was: Installing all from a specific archive)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 17 20:06:24 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 15:41, Alan Sparks wrote:
> Wow, this is exactly what I'm looking for, I think.  Thanks!
> 
> Is there a special thing to kickstart finding this file?  I've made one
> according to what I've Google'd, and put it in the top of my
> repository.  But:
> 
> $ yum grouplist coolpkgs
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 base
> Server: Quris Standard Packages
> Server: Fedore Core 2 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Getting groups from servers
> No groups provided or accessible on any server.
> Exiting.
> 
> I don't even see yum hitting my web server looking for a yumgroups.xml
> file.  Otherwise my repository seems to work.  This is Yum 2.0.7 on FC2,
> incidentally.
> 

You sure it was in the top of your repository?

top == $baseurl/yumgroups.xml

also did you run yum grouplist as root so it could download the file for
the first time?

-sv





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