[Rpm-metadata] createrepo with delta for rhel/centos/epel

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:

> hi,
> the current version of createrepo in rhel/centos is not able to generate
> deltarpm packages. it'd be very useful to update it to newer version
> which is able. currently deltarpm and yum-presto is in epel, but
> unfortunately epel can't update packages already in the upstream distro.
> so it's now a deadlock and the only solution is to update the in distro
> createrepo:-(
> at the same time i can create a new createrepo for myself, but another
> problem that the latest createrepo requires at least yum-3.2.23 but
> rhel only has 3.2.22. even though i try and it seems 3.2.22 would be
> enough (build and seems to working) for createrepo-0.9.8-2. is there any
> good reason to require 3.2.23? is there any good reason to update yum to
> an even newer version?

yes - createrepo requires modules from yum for accessing and producing the 
metadata.

it is a hard requirement and not having it would mean duplicating A LOT of 
code.

-sv