[Spacewalk-list] Help with repository creation

[Michael Mraka]

Carlo Filippetto wrote:
% Hi,
% I'm trying to configure the first mirror, but it doesn't work
% 
% SO -> CentOs 5.7
% Spacewalk -> 1.6
% 
% Errore
% ------------------------
% /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel="centos5-base-i386" --type=yum
% Traceback (most recent call last):
%   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 100, in ?
%     sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
%   File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 93, in main
%     sync.sync()
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py",
% line 103, in sync
%     self.import_packages(plugin, repo_id, url)
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/reposync.py",
% line 309, in import_packages
%     packages = plug.list_packages(filters)
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py",
% line 149, in list_packages
%     self.sack.populate(self.repo, 'metadata', None, 0)
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in populate
%     if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 226, in
% _check_db_version
%     return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1226,
% in _check_db_version
%     repoXML = self.repoXML
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1399, in <lambda>
%     repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1395,
% in _getRepoXML
%     raise Errors.RepoError, msg
% yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)
% for repository: centos5-base-i386. Please verify its path and try
% again
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This is either network issue or wrong repo URL.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat