[Yum] Reg primary.xml.gz to primary.xml.gz.sqlite conversion

Kulbir Saini kulbirsaini at students.iiit.ac.in
Tue Sep 11 11:39:12 UTC 2007


Hi!

>
> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 06:36 +0530, Kulbir Saini wrote:
>>    My application runs the commands on client side which is Fedora 7 and
>> creates the repo on server side. Server is running Fedora Core 5 and
>> hence the older
>> version of createrepo.
>
> you have a client-server model for this? Why not just mount the repodirs
> via nfs from your fc5 to your f7 box?
>

  Yeah. I can't do nfs mount thingy, b'cos I want to make it totally
independent of everything. Just plain python. Anyway, I resolved that
according to my requirements by uncompressing the primary.xml.gz and the
parsing with xml.dom.minidom.

>
>>    Can I use the createrepo with repodata available to recreate the
>> repodata to -d option ? I mean without having the actual rpms.
>
> no.
> -sv
>
>
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Thank you,
Kulbir Saini,
Computer Science and Engineering,
International Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderbad, India - 500032.

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