On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:45:16 -0500, Luke Macken wrote: > > createrepo < 0.4.5 > The old updates system code (and the fedora-updates-clean cronjob) has hacks > around this, as well, when dealing with the updateinfo.xml.gz. I > haven't checked, but how does createrepo >= 0.4.5 deal with unknown > files now? It moves old files and restores them when it's done. Still, with a CLI push-script, something like Ctrl+C would interrupt createrepo in an unwanted way and require manual cleanup. Hence a backup/restore mechanism outside of it is good. It seems createrepo 0.4.6 from 11-Aug-2006 is the only version after 0.4.4 (FC6).
