Re: Reg primary.xml.gz to primary.xml.gz.sqlite conversion

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 05:37 +0530, Kulbir Saini wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>    I am developing an application in Python in which I need to yum from
> cache with some modified configuration file. I have cache directory,
> and .repo files in accordance with yum.conf file. The exact commands I
> am using through os.system() are
> [root@bordeaux saini]$ yum -c yum.conf -C info available
> [root@bordeaux saini]$ yum -c yum.conf -C info updates
> 
>    The above two commands were working fine up to Fedora Core 6. But as
> Fedora 7 is being shipped with newer version of yum which uses
> primary.xml.gz.sqlite file to run from cache. So, my application is
> breaking in Fedora 7.
> 
>    Could anybody please guide me how to convert from primary.xml.gz to
> primary.xml.gz.sqlite using yum with some options on the command line,
> so that I can convert primary.xml.gz on the run and help my application
> to run successfully.
> 
> PS : This is my first post to this list. Please ignore any mistakes that I
> might have made accidently.
> 

Well, if you're using a recent createrepo to generate the repositories
then you just use: createrepo -d 

that auto-generates the sqlite databases.

Does that help?

-sv