createrepo -c problems

> I thought I had merged those patches.

I think I figured out why.

Hans-Peter's offers two patches to fix the missing hdrid here:

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2005-July/ 
000538.html

I don't see a reply to that message.

A virtually identical change to one of those patches was offered by  
Christoph Thiel here:

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-metadata/2005-November/ 
000552.html

You applied Christoph's patch which is equivalent to the "less- 
robust" of Hans-Peter's offerings.

In any case, I want to revisit the original question:

> Perhaps if there is no useful id/sum then use the version-release  
> strings?

It's not clear to me what's wrong with basing the cache filename on  
NVR. These are supposed to be unique in the RPM universe (at least  
within a distribution) since if they aren't worlds collide.

j.