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I am having trouble setting up a custom package group for my custom yum repository in RHEL7.6.

First, here are the steps I am taking to create the custom yum repository.

  1. Create a directory that will contain all the RPMs and copy over the relevant ones:

    $ mkdir MyRepo
    $ cp /path/to/some/*.rpm MyRepo/
    
  2. Generate metadata for the repository:

    $ cd MyRepo
    $ createrepo .
    

Now that the custom repository is made, I move onto creating the package group as follows.

  1. Create a comps.xml file in MyRepo/repodata/:
    $ touch repodata/comps.xml
    
    that contains metadata of the following form:
    <comps>
    <!--  <meta> -->
    <!-- Meta information will go here eventually... -->
    <!--  </meta> -->
      <group>
        <id>myrepo</id>
        <name>MyRepo</name>
        <default>true</default>
        <description>My custom repository</description>
        <uservisible>true</uservisible>
        <packagelist>
          <packagereq type="mandatory">octave</packagereq>
          <packagereq type="mandatory">octave-devel</packagereq>
          etc...
        </packagelist>
      </group>
    </comps>
    
  2. I then update the metadata previously created to account for the group data:
    createrepo -g repodata/comps.xml .
    
  3. Finally I create myrepo.repo to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and put the following in it:
    [myrepo]
    name=MyRepo
    baseurl=file:///path/to/MyRepo
    enabled=1
    

Once all that is complete I yum clean all which works without complaining. But then when I go to test things via yum --noplugins groupinfo MyRepo things go badly. I get the following error:

There is no installed groups file.
Maybe run: yum groups mark convert (see man yum)
Failed to add groups file for repository: MyRepo - comps file is empty/damaged
Warning: group/environment MyRepo does not exist.

My comps file is not empty and its hash matches what is found in repodata/repomd.xml. I am pretty lost as to how to go about debugging this. What am I doing wrong? Would a mistyped package name cause this big of an error?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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I got the same messages, "here is no installed groups file.", and "Failed to add groups file for repository: base - comps file is empty/damaged".

I was working on a default install from the official repository.

It turned out to be a cache problem.

sudo yum rm -rf /var/cache/yum

cleared it all up

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