[Yum] createrep question

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Kidwell,jr, Jack wrote:

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> Hello,
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> After several googles, I turn to you. Forgive my poor google skills if this is a FAQ.
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> I have a COTS RPM that is invisible to yum, and I think the cause is the arch property. While the arch tag
> is properly set in the COTS RPM, createrepo always chooses “src”, ignoring the vendor’s arch tag.
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> Looking in createrepo/ dumpMetadata.py I see this:
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>     def arch(self):
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>         if self.tagByName('sourcepackage') == 1 or not self.tagByName('sourcerpm'):
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>             return 'src'
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>         else:
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>             return self.tagByName('arch')
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> The COTS RPM does not set tag SOURCERPM, so createrepo returns ‘src’.
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> What’s the rationalization for this rule? I need to make a case with the vendor.

B/c that's how you can detect a sourcerpm.

How is the pkg being made such that it does not have sourcerpm tag?

Can you provide a  link to this pkg?

-sv