On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 19:40 -0500, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Monday, 01 November 2004, at 17:53:39 (-0500), > seth vidal wrote: > > > out of curiosity why do you not want to recurse? > > Long story short, it's a portion of a build tree that has some > packages underneath in a build hierarchy that shouldn't end up > installable. Think historical data, if you will. > > > and can't you just use -x DIR_I_DONT_WANT/*? > > Tried that. No dice. here's what I just tried with createrepo and it worked: createrepo -v -p -x RPMS/*.rpm ~/rpm/ Doing that excludes all rpms under RPMS/ if it's not working let me know, and tell me which version -sv