[Rpm-metadata] createrepo patch to optionally use /usr/bin/file to detect rpms

[Jay Soffian]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Florian La Roche wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:06:50AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> I put together a quick patch that allows genpkgmetadata to optionally
>> call out to /usr/bin/file to examine any files it encounters that
>> don't have the normal .rpm extension (files which do have .rpm are
>> assumed to be rpms and are not passed to /usr/bin/file).
>
> Maybe adding an option to read the filelist from a new file or
> stdin would also be a good idea? Then you can script whatever you
> want to outside of createrepo.

I'm not sure if you're suggesting this in addition to, or in lieu of  
the patch I submitted. I like the idea, but it's a bit more ripping  
apart of the code. I'll have a look though.

BTW, does anyone know if yum 2.6 properly supports createrepos' -u  
<base_url> option? I wasn't able to get it to work. The base url  
appears in the XML files that createrepo produces but appears to be  
ignored by yum. (2.6.1).

j.