[Rpm-metadata] createrepo -c problems

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 03:35 schrieb John Newbigin:
> This is a follow up to the thread "yum won't update vmware" on the
> yum list.  I was having problems which were introduced by using
> createrepo -c
>
> I did some digging, and found that the cache relies of the rpm header
> field %HDRID (or %SHA1HEADER, depending on your version).  A quick
> check showed that this was missing from the vmware packages,
> resulting in duplicate hashes for the key in the cache directory (ie,
> blank (well it uses [] for some reason)).
>
> The Sun j2sdk also missing the tags, but surprisingly Sun jdk has
> them.
>
> The command
> rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{HDRID}\n' -p *.rpm
> will show more or less the problem.  Example output:
> j2sdk-(none)
> j2sdk-(none)
> jdk-8bfd4b333a68559d382f5683d845f4ae91e6a410
> jdk-ee3a94f8e4cb4b4253cc67dc162c442ba0231b04
>
>
> Perhaps if there is no useful id/sum then use the version-release
> strings?  Or just refuse to use the cache for that file.
>
> I am not much good with python but I might have a play.

then search the list for some of my patches, test them and call back. 
This problem is somewhat common for commercial rpms, but luckily, the 
rpm header contains fields to mitigate this, but I don't remember the 
gory details ATM.

Pete