Help with genbasedir on x86_64 [FIXED]

[Archie]

On Test 3 x86-64, I managed to install Kori's pkgutils and had been able to build a few. I've even installed the RPMs using rpm -Uvh but I'd like to try and use Synaptic.

My problem is genbasedir is not generating the package archives.

if I use the command

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[archie@arevalo 2011]$ cd /home/archie/Temporary/src/apt/pclinuxos/2011/
[archie@arevalo 2011]$ genbasedir --flat --bz2only --progress /home/archie/Temporary/src/apt/pclinuxos/2011/
I get an

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error: no components found
If I add x86_64 at the end of the genbasedir command

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[archie@arevalo 2011]$ genbasedir --flat --bz2only --progress /home/archie/Temporary/src/apt/pclinuxos/2011/ x86_64
I get an

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Components: x86_64
Processing pkglists... [done]
Processing srclists... [done]
Updating component releases... x86_64 [done]
Creating global release file... [done]
Appending MD5Sum... x86_64 [done]
All your base are belong to us!!!
and have two files release and release.x86_64. So what am I doing wrong?

[Neal ManBear]

Have you tried running synaptic with those 2?     

[Archie]

I already tried running Synaptic with my local /src/apt/pclinuxos/2011/ and get an error:

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Could not download all repository indexes
...

file:/home/archie/Temporary/src/apt/pclinuxos/2011/base/pkglist.x86_64: File not found


[Neal ManBear]

  Yet you generated it? Hmm...... got nothing at the moment. Sorry.     

[Archie]

Could it be the /usr/bin/genbasedir script? Or one of the option I was using?

rpm -Uvh works fine. It would be good to test install on Synaptic.

[Sproggy]

why you using tmp folder to store them?

[Archie]

why you using tmp folder to store them?

Did you mean ~/Temporary/src ?? I've had this setup even before and it worked just fine. I have absolutely no problem with the build. It is only when generating a local repo package list that I am lost.

I'm gonna have a careful look at the genbasedir command. Maybe I can come up with a solution.

EDIT:

I took a peek at our official repository (ibiblio) and noted that there are only three files on /base. I already have two of them - release and release.x86_64. I only needed to figure out how the pkglist.x86_64.bz2 is created.

[Archie]

Well, what do you know?? It is of my own stupidity that I've overlooked a symlink to my RPMS folder. I created the link as x86_64 when it should really be RPMS.x86_64. There's nothing wrong with the genbasedir command. It was the non-existent (or erroneous) folder name that was preventing me from generating the pkglist.x86_64.bz2.

I good to go ...

[kjpetrie]

There's nothing wrong with the genbasedir command.

Well, there is - it reports success when it fails!