[Rpm-metadata] createrepo testing please.

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:05:55PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Daniel Veillard on irc mentioned to me that he thinks createrepo should
> > make a subdir off of /some/dir/full/of/rpms/
> > 
> > 1. objections to this? - should this be a requirement of the
> > specification?
> 
>   Well it's easier to garantee an atomic operation at a directory level
> and since there is 4 files emitted it's cleaner IMHO to generate them in a
> distinct subdir.

Agreed, much cleaner to put them into a subdir. My +1.

> 
> >   2. if no objections then suggestions on a dir name?
> 
>   repo or repodata ? 

Both ok by me, though maybe "repository" instead of "repo" (but maybe just 
because "repo" in finnish is a word used by children for "fox" :), 
"repodata" on the other hand is ok.

	- Panu -