Re: test if repomd up to date?

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Erich Focht wrote:

> thanks for the reply. How am I supposed to use cachedir? My attempts 
> failed:
> 
> focht/bin> createrepo --cachedir /media/usbdisk/SuSE9.3/repodata/repocache/ /media/usbdisk/SuSE9.3/
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 485, in ?
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 417, in main
>     doPkgMetadata(cmds, ts)
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 266, in doPkgMetadata
>     mdobj = dumpMetadata.RpmMetaData(ts, file, cmds)
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py", line 231, in __init__
>     self.pkgid = self.doChecksumCache(fo)
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py", line 565, in doChecksumCache
>     csumtag = '%s-%s' % (self.hdr['name'] , self.hdr['hdrid'])
> KeyError: 'unknown header tag'

The "hdrid" header alias isn't available in the rpm (4.1.1) on SUSE Linux 
9.3. But you could simply patch up your createrepo to use 
"rpm.RPMTAG_SHA1HEADER" instead.

I'v attached the patch we currently apply to our createrepo package on 
SUSE Linux.


Regards
	Christoph

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--- dumpMetadata.py
+++ dumpMetadata.py
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@
         if not self.options['cache']:
             return getChecksum(self.options['sumtype'], fo)
         
-        csumtag = '%s-%s' % (self.hdr['name'] , self.hdr['hdrid'])
+        csumtag = '%s-%s' % (self.hdr['name'] , self.hdr[rpm.RPMTAG_SHA1HEADER])
         csumfile = '%s/%s' % (self.options['cachedir'], csumtag)
         if os.path.exists(csumfile):
             csumo = open(csumfile, 'r')
--- genpkgmetadata.py
+++ genpkgmetadata.py
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@
                 errorprint(_('This option is deprecated'))
             elif arg in ['-c', '--cachedir']:
                 cmds['cache'] = True
+                if not os.path.isabs(a):
+                    a = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), a)
                 cmds['cachedir'] = a
                 if not checkAndMakeDir(a):
                     errorprint(_('Error: cannot open/write to cache dir %s' % a))