Re: createrepo with delta for rhel/centos/epel

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:

> 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:-)

then take up that subject with a bug report to at rhel and/or a request to 
your TAM. This list is not for discussing what things will or will not go 
into rhel5.

thanks,
-sv