[Rpm-metadata] createrepo testing please.

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jan 13 21:51:11 UTC 2004


Hi all,
 need some testing done please.

1. http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.1-1.noarch.rpm
if you're on fedora core or rhl9
   or
   http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.1-1.src.rpm
   or
   http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/generate/createrepo-0.1.tar.gz

2. install them (duh :)

3. run createrepo /some/dir/full/of/rpms
4. look at /some/dir/full/of/rpms/repomd.xml, primary.xml.gz,
filelists.xml.gz and other.xml.gz  - see if the data seems right or not.

5. run createrepo -h and see if there are options you want to play with.

tell me anything that breaks. 
Thanks
-sv





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