Re: createrepo testing please.

Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:05:55PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 3. run createrepo /some/dir/full/of/rpms
> > 4. look at /some/dir/full/of/rpms/repomd.xml, primary.xml.gz,
> > filelists.xml.gz and other.xml.gz  - see if the data seems right or not.
> > 
> 
> Daniel Veillard on irc mentioned to me that he thinks createrepo should
> make a subdir off of /some/dir/full/of/rpms/
> 
> 1. objections to this? - should this be a requirement of the
> specification?

  Well it's easier to garantee an atomic operation at a directory level
and since there is 4 files emitted it's cleaner IMHO to generate them in a
distinct subdir.

>   2. if no objections then suggestions on a dir name?

  repo or repodata ? 

Daniel

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