Re: Createrepo on RedHat 9

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:15 -0600, Metadata wrote:
> 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.

update libxml2 and libxml2-python to a newer version.

oh and stop using EOL'd distributions. :)

-sv