Re: Idea for createrepo
John Newbigin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:37 +1100, John Newbigin wrote: > >>If I could write the metadata to the filesystem then I can combine the >>files with the DVD contents using web server magic and turn the >>directory into a yum repository. >> >>In short I want to run something like this: >>createrepo -o . http://localhost/centos/iso/4.5/RPMS/ >> >>Does that explain it? >> >>John. > > > Yes, that does explain it. The only hang up is we'll have to > download/read all of the rpms on the remote site in order to produce the > repodata. Is that something you're okay with? That is OK. I only want to use it on the localhost. I am not sure how useful it would be on remote sites. John. > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-metadata > > -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin