Createrepo on RedHat 9

Hi all,

I briefly searched the mailing list archives and didn't see anything
like this, so forgive me if this is common knowledge.

I'm using a RedHat 9 box to stores RPM repositories for RH 9, FC1, FC2
and now FC3. When using the "createrepo" command on the RedHat 9 box to
create the repodata directories, everything seems to go well, but
the .tar.gz files that it creates don't actually contain any package
data inside of them.

My work-around for this problem was to NFS mount the RedHat 9
directories and to use "createrepo" on a Fedora Core 3 box in order to
generate the repodata information. This solution worked flawlessly,
however, I was wondering if you guys had any idea why the "createrepo"
command doesn't actually generate the proper data file when used locally
on the RH9 box, as this would be my preferred solution.

Thanks much for any ideas you can provide.