[Rpm-metadata] createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15 loses beginning of package file names

[Jim Walker]

If the name of the directory is the same as the beginning of the name of a package, createrepo trims those characters from the beginning of the package file name when it creates the metadata.  Then yum can't find the file.  This is easily reproducable.  The workaround is to name the directory something else.  Tested on fedora 13 with createrepo-0.9.8-4.fc13 and on fedora 15 live KDE with createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15.  

In this example, naming the repository repo causes repo to be deleted from the beginning of filenames report-*.rpm, leaving us with rt-*.rpm

[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
[root at localhost ~]# rpm -q createrepo
createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15.noarch
[root at localhost ~]# mkdir /repo
[root at localhost ~]# cp /x/Packages/report-* /repo
[root at localhost ~]# createrepo /repo
Spawning worker 0 with 8 pkgs
Workers Finished
Gathering worker results

Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
[root at localhost ~]# cd /repo/repodata/
[root at localhost repodata]# ls
278e393e713bc8a1184496fd898b71ca95d326b30304aade85e5cf15a99cf241-primary.sqlite.bz2
49a9ca8f1c4e3f6f928c4dda977fb5d0ff5515e3fad12ff1b2449bb765d82295-filelists.xml.gz
4ac9143e1190aca4359570eedb971769ade7294e92750cb1115e388464f1db5f-primary.xml.gz
4e62760f53f4d258364f2ecb7e27551634551552c80833c4e9e34a64c5e5614f-other.sqlite.bz2
8164659a4ce805a71ed77fa4eed294207bc99a86e4e2129bb05482410f7ae0c2-other.xml.gz
d3068c3b3903f9e63d6bbd9e97df382cab212c4e1d5506c238d066ed0fdaae9d-filelists.sqlite.bz2
repomd.xml
[root at localhost repodata]# cat *primary.xml.gz | gunzip | grep href
<location href="rt-plugin-bugzilla-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-plugin-scp-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-gtk-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-config-scp-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-config-bugzilla-redhat-com-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-plugin-localsave-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
<location href="rt-config-localsave-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm"/>
[root at localhost repodata]# cd ..
[root at localhost repo]# ls
repodata
report-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-config-bugzilla-redhat-com-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-config-localsave-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-config-scp-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-gtk-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-plugin-bugzilla-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-plugin-localsave-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
report-plugin-scp-0.10-5.fc13.i686.rpm
[root at localhost repo]#