Re: createrepo w/centos distribution

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 13:06 +0100, Henry Kemp wrote:
> I'm having difficulties using createrepo (v.0.4.3) to re-create the
> repodata for a local copy of a CentOS 5.x repository. The directory
> layout is as follows:
> 
>     |-- CentOS
>     |   |-- Cluster_Administration-as-IN-5.2-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
>     |   |-- Cluster_Administration-bn-IN-5.2-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
>     |   |-- Cluster_Administration-de-DE-5.2-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
>     |   |-- Cluster_Administration-en-US-5.2-1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm
>     [...snipped...]
>     |-- images
>     |   `-- stage2.img
>     `-- repodata
>         |-- filelists.xml.gz
>         |-- other.xml.gz
>         |-- primary.xml.gz
>         `-- repomd.xml
> 
>     3 directories, 3232 files
> 
> It looks as though createrepo wants to create the repodata in the same
> directory as the RPMs (so in this  case CentOS/repodata) so I've
> specified the output directory and that writes the repodata files to the
> correct place but the location of the RPMs in primary.xml is wrong (eg.
> location href="db4-tcl-4.3.29-9.fc6.x86_64.rpm" when it should be
> location href="CentOS/db4-tcl-4.3.29-9.fc6.x86_64.rpm"). The command
> I've been using is "createrepo -p -o . -u CentOS CentOS".
> 
> Any advice would be gratefully appreciated!
> 

Don't specify an outputdir unless you need to:

just run:
createrepo -p /path/to/CentOS

that will make the repodata dir inside the CentOS dir.

-sv