[OGo-Users] Crappy docs; yum install not possible

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

Hi All,

I haven't posted here in a very long time - can't even remember the last
time.

Anyway, I'm about to attempt an install on a CentOS 4 box with yum (to
test it out, and to test an upgrade of a very old OGo server).  Let me
say the documentation is absolute crap - it's so out of date, my head
was spinning trying to figure out where to get the packages from, and
what repo to configure.

So, after figuring out I wanted to install the nightly packages, I found
the rhel4 repo.  I then setup the following for yum:

[ogo-trunk]
name=OpenGroupware.org trunk builds
baseurl=http://download.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/rhel4/trunk/

[ogo-releases]
name=OpenGroupware.org release builds
baseurl=http://download.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/rhel4/releases/

I go ahead and try an install, but get this error:

Setting up repositories
http://download.opengroupware.org/nightly/packages/rhel4/releases/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: ogo-releases
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from ogo-releases: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from ogo-releases: [Errno 256] No
more mirrors to try.

Great. There's a RHEL4 repo, but there's no repo data to actually
install it with yum.  So, now what?  Use apt-get?  I don't use that tool
anymore; ever since Fedora Core and CentOS moved entirely to yum, that's
all I've been using.

How are others doing this?  Also, can someone involved with the OGo
project run a "createrepo" on that directory so we puny yum users can do
a yum install?

Thanks,

Ranbir

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