I have created a repo of EPEL, but I currently only want iperf, so I am using the RPM list feature. # cobbler repo report Name : epel Arch : x86_64 Breed : yum Comment : Createrepo Flags : <<inherit>> Environment Variables : {} Keep Updated : True Mirror : http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64 Mirror locally : True Owners : ['admin'] Priority : 99 RPM List : ['iperf'] Yum Options : {} I then run a cobbler reposync with the following output # cobbler reposync task started: 2011-08-01_204400_reposync task started (id=Reposync, time=Mon Aug 1 20:44:00 2011) hello, reposync run, reposync, run! creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/.origin/epel.repo running: /usr/bin/yumdownloader --resolve --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel -c /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/.origin/epel.repo --destdir=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel iperf received: Repository epel is listed more than once in the configuration --> Running transaction check ---> Package iperf.x86_64 0:2.0.5-1.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/iperf-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm already exists and appears to be complete running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml -O /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/.origin/repomd.xml received: running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/78f41dcf522c... /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/repodata/78f41dcf522c086bd5c8e2639e115237b34ff242-comps-el5.xml received: running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/updateinfo.x... /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz received: running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/92bcfd7a2657... /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/repodata/92bcfd7a2657432972db6205097f77d48b3dca49-comps-el5.xml.gz received: running: /usr/bin/wget -q http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/pkgtags.sqli... /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/repodata/pkgtags.sqlite.gz received: running: createrepo -g repodata/78f41dcf522c086bd5c8e2639e115237b34ff242-comps-el5.xml -c cache -s sha /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel received: Saving Primary metadata Saving file lists metadata Saving other metadata creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/config.repo running: chown -R root:apache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel received: running: chmod -R 755 /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel received: *** TASK COMPLETE *** I then add the appropriate epel.repo file to the client: # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 baseurl=http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 A yum repolist shows: # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64 baseurl=http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 I do a you clean all for good measure: # yum clean all Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Cleaning up Everything Now, when I do a yum install iperf, it does not find the package: # yum install iperf Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security epel | 1.2 kB 00:00 epel/primary | 191 B 00:00 rhel-x86_64-server-5 | 1.3 kB 00:00 rhel-x86_64-server-5/primary | 4.1 MB 00:00 rhel-x86_64-server-5 11860/11860 rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5 | 1.1 kB 00:00 rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5/primary | 41 kB 00:00 rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-5 481/481 Setting up Install Process No package iperf available. Nothing to do On the cobbler box (actually rhn satellite with cobbler enabled), I have checked the files in /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/repodata/ # ls -las /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/epel/repodata/ total 1428 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root apache 4096 Aug 1 20:47 . 8 drwxr-xr-x 5 root apache 4096 Aug 1 20:47 .. 616 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 620423 Aug 1 20:47 78f41dcf522c086bd5c8e2639e115237b34ff242-comps-el5.xml 176 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 171124 Aug 1 18:48 92bcfd7a2657432972db6205097f77d48b3dca49-comps-el5.xml.gz 176 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 171124 Jul 30 04:36 c1ac35d709f2c733e7d6f039a7469d9c3617e668-comps-el5.xml.gz 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 184 Aug 1 20:47 filelists.xml.gz 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 179 Aug 1 20:47 other.xml.gz 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 323 Aug 1 19:45 pkgtags.sqlite.gz 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 191 Aug 1 20:47 primary.xml.gz 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 1185 Aug 1 20:47 repomd.xml 404 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root apache 403902 Aug 1 19:45 updateinfo.xml.gz The following yields nothing: # grep iperf *.xml While checking against the *.xml.gz files reveals a reference in updates.xml.gz # for each in $(ls *.gz); do echo $each; zcat $each | grep -c iperf; done 92bcfd7a2657432972db6205097f77d48b3dca49-comps-el5.xml.gz 0 c1ac35d709f2c733e7d6f039a7469d9c3617e668-comps-el5.xml.gz 0 filelists.xml.gz 0 other.xml.gz 0 pkgtags.sqlite.gz 0 primary.xml.gz 0 updateinfo.xml.gz 1 So, my question is, "Why won't the yum install iperf from the client actually work?" -- Christopher Dale | President and Forum Moderator mobile: 540-903-1775 | email: christopher.dale(a)colloquium.co web: http://www.colloquium.co | twitter: @colloquiumco<http://twitter.com/colloquiumco> | identica: @colloquiumco <http://identi.ca/colloquiumco>