All,

I'm trying to set up mrepo so we can have internal repositories. After quite the slog, things seem to be working as expected EXCEPT for groups.

From man createrepo:

EXAMPLES Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e. /path/to/rpms/comps.xml).

createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms

So here's what I'm doing:

wget -c http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml
cp comps-sl6-x86_64.xml /var/mrepo/SL6-x86_64/os/Packages/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml
createrepo -g comps-sl6-x86_64.xml /var/mrepo/SL6-x86_64/os/Packages/

lots of output, no apparent errors or warnings

BUT.. from a client:

yum grouplist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Group Process
Error: No group data available for configured repositories

Here's /etc/mrepo.conf:

### Configuration file for mrepo
### The [main] section allows to override mrepo's default settings
### The mrepo-example.conf gives an overview of all the possible settings
[main]
srcdir = /var/mrepo
wwwdir = /var/www/mrepo
confdir = /etc/mrepo.conf.d
arch = x86_64
mailto = root@localhost
smtp-server = localhost
pxelinux = /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
tftpdir = /tftpboot
#rhnlogin = username:password

### Any other section is considered a definition for a distribution
### You can put distribution sections in /etc/mrepo.conf.d
### Examples can be found in the documentation.

Here's /etc/mrepo.conf.d/sl6.mrepo:

### Scientific Linux 6
[SL6]
name = Scientific Linux 6
release = 6
arch = x86_64
metadata = repomd repoview
os = rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/$release/$arch/os/
updates = rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/$release/$arch/updates/
security = rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/$release/$arch/updates/security/
fastbugs = rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/$release/$arch/updates/fastbugs/