[Rpm-metadata] createrepo with delta for rhel/centos/epel

[Farkas Levente]

On 11/16/2009 05:45 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> the current version of createrepo in rhel/centos is not able to generate
>> deltarpm packages. it'd be very useful to update it to newer version
>> which is able. currently deltarpm and yum-presto is in epel, but
>> unfortunately epel can't update packages already in the upstream distro.
>> so it's now a deadlock and the only solution is to update the in distro
>> createrepo:-(
>> at the same time i can create a new createrepo for myself, but another
>> problem that the latest createrepo requires at least yum-3.2.23 but
>> rhel only has 3.2.22. even though i try and it seems 3.2.22 would be
>> enough (build and seems to working) for createrepo-0.9.8-2. is there any
>> good reason to require 3.2.23? is there any good reason to update yum to
>> an even newer version?
> 
> yes - createrepo requires modules from yum for accessing and producing
> the metadata.
> 
> it is a hard requirement and not having it would mean duplicating A LOT
> of code.

but seems to be backported to yum-3.2.22-20:-)

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