Re: Createrepo on RedHat 9

Ha. Yeah, there are still a few stragglers running RH9 here that I
haven't found the time to upgrade yet (if it ain't broke :)

Anyhow, I updated to the latest libxml2 and libxml2-python and that
worked perfectly well. Thank you...

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 20:59 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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