Re: Readonly Repo - createrepo a folder up - works

"Gerd Bitzer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Fajar and Dave,


> David Timms wrote:
> > David Timms wrote:
> >> It actually works for me {using an iso rather than dvd}:
> > By the way using yum-3.2.8-2.fc8
> > I thought I had done this in the F5/f6 time frame as well.
> >
> Ah, it seems my createrepo is waaaaay to old :) I use 
> createrepo-0.4.6-1.el4.rf, the latest available RHEL4 package from dag's 
> repository. RHEL5's createrepo-0.4.11-1.el5 does work as you describe, 
> processing dir symlinks correctly. Thanks for the info.

ok, that's a valuable hint because I also have the el4 apps from rpmforge:

# rpm -qa | grep yum
yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf
# rpm -qa | grep create
createrepo-0.4.6-1.el4.rf

I'm going to try it with createrepo-0.4.11-1.el5 


Thanks a lot

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fajar
> 

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