[Yum-devel] How to generate {filelists,primary,other}.sqlite.bz2?

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 22:36 -0600, Allen J. Newton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've checked the FAQ and Google for this, but I don't seem to be finding what
> I'm looking for.
> 
> I have the files from the Fedora 7 ISO installed on my PXE boot server on an
> isolated network, and it works fine.  I have also downloaded the latest
> package updates to the PXE boot server.
> 
> What I would like to do (and have done successfully in RHEL3/4) is to replace
> the original F7 distro's outdated RPM files with those that have been updated.
> Once I've done this, I run createrepo and it updates the following files in
> the repodata/ directory:
> 
>     filelists.xml.gz
>     other.xml.gz
>     primary.xml.gz
> 
> However, it removes the following files:
> 
>     filelists.sqlite.bz2
>     other.sqlite.bz2
>     primary.sqlite.bz2
> 
> This causes anaconda to not work during installation any more.  It says that
> it cannot find the package metadata.  Evidently, it's using the sqlite
> version, rather than the XML version.
> 
> My question is this:  How do I regenerate new sqlite files?
> 
> Thank you for any help you can give.


make sure you have createrepo from fedora 7. Then run:
createrepo -d

the -d generates the sqlite databases on the repository side.

-sv