Re: Tools to create YUM repository

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 20:38 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Amit Laxmikant Pande <[email protected]>
> >
> > The question might be a little naive. Apologies for that.
> >
> > 1. I have a set of packages kept under some directory and I want to create a YUM structure (on a file system itself). Do we have tools which would do that ?
> >
> > 2. The extension of this question : Do these tools work on Windows too ?
> 
> I believe the tool you are after is createrepo, it comes part of
> CentOS and I assume also all other rpm-based distributions. A quick
> google came up with the following address at the top of the list:
> http://createrepo.baseurl.org/
> 
> >
> > For example , I want to create a YUM repository on a Windows server.
> 
> I never tried this but would expect it stands a chance as it's an
> all-python environment. Try asking Google.
> 

If you can get rpm-python and rpm on windows then it's possible, I
guess.

-sv