[Rpm-metadata] [PATCH] output dir option

[Dennis Gregorovic]

The attached patch creates a new configuration option "outputdir" which
specifies the directory where the "repodata" dir will be created.  By
default, the outputdir is the same as the basedir.  

A user specifying the outputdir can create repodata somewhere other than
the package source.  This can be useful, for example, when the package
source is on a read-only filesystem.  

Along these lines, I'm also working on a separate patch for yum that
will use the xml:base attribute of the location tag when it is set.
Then, by using a command like

 $ createrepo --baseurl file:///mnt/loop --outputdir . /mnt/loop

we can create a local yum repository against read-only package
directories.

One more note about the patch.  I moved the "# Fix paths" section of
code from main() to parseArgs().  Like my previous patch, this helps to
consolidate the configuration settings so that code using
genpkgmetadata.py as a library works more smoothly.

Thoughts?

-- Dennis

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