[Rpm-metadata] if the repo not changed createrepo leave there the .repodate dir

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 27 15:16:08 UTC 2009



On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>> if i run a
>>> createrepo --update ...
>>> on repo which not change since the last run it create a .repodate temp
>>> dir but leave it there. imho it should have to clean it up.
>>>
>>> ps. we test it on centos-5.3's createrepo-0.4.11-3.el5.
>>> pss. i can't create ticket for http://createrepo.baseurl.org/newticket
>>> even if i register:-(
>>
>> I can't replicate this at all. Are you sure that the .repodata you're
>> seeing is from the most recent run of createrepo?
>
> yes. on centos-5.3 run with different uid:
> drwxrwsr-x 4 robot   devel    4096 Apr 20 22:47 ./
> drwsrwsr-x 8 robot   devel    4096 Apr 14 13:36 ../
> drwxrwsr-x 2 lfarkas devel    4096 Apr 20 22:46 repodata/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 robot   devel    4096 Apr 20 22:47 .repodata/

Are you running the new command as 'robot' or as 'lfarkas'?

b/c it looks like a perm error of some kind, I'd bet.

-sv



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