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

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Tue Apr 28 07:57:21 UTC 2009


Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>
>>> ah, okay  this is coming from the -C option. I think I see why.
>>>
>>> Farkas,
>>>  is the same true for you? are you using -C?
>>
>> yes. sorry forget to mention it:-(
>>
> 
> 
> so a couple of things here:
> 
> 1. the .repodata dir will be completely empty if you get it from this error
> 2. there isn't any harm in this dir being there - unless it's an
> aesthetic one
> 
> But the fix is utterly trivial, you just os.rmdir() the
> .repodata/tempdir. I can check it in - but in terms of importance, there
> is almost none.
> 
> Is there something else going on here that this is causing problems for
> y'all?

none. after we look into the source code we understand it, but for an
'average' user it can seems that the repo is not up-to-date or has some
problem.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"


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