[Yum-devel] Re: creating an updates repository
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Mar 24 17:48:53 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 11:39 -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> On Friday 24 March 2006 03:25 am, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > A package is an update if :
> >
> > 1. The package 'foo-1.0-01' is install on your system.
> > 2. The package in your repository, has a greater version/release/epoch.
> > 'foo-1.0-02'
>
> Hmm, that's what I thought. Which leaves the question, "why is the repodata
> created by createrepo not working identically to that found on the fedora
> mirrors?". I should be able to take the official fedora updates directory,
> delete the repodata dir, and recreate it using createrepo. However, that
> results in the strange behavior observed above...
>
are you sure there _are_ any updates for your system in that dir?
-sv
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