On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:07 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > Already done a few thread steps above (requoted the part). It's not > > > server-side, that's easy. It's ensuring that the client side will > > > work, and also that it won't break all repos. If freshrpms upgrades > > > yum to yum-2.1.x or yum-2.2, a lot of freshrpms users will find that > > > their other "old" yum repos are dead, and they won't have a handle to > > > use them. > > > > Except that I went around to all of the major repository maintainers and > > in most cases convinced them to run createrepo on their repositories. > > What are the requirements for createrepo? > I ask because I have a FreeBSD box which happens to have a couple of > bunches of rpms on it (don't ask), and the upstream sources don't appear > to be doing yum data for me right now. So how much stuff am I likely to > need to generate the data? How about older style yum headers? > createrepo needs rpm, rpm-python, libxml2 and python 2.2. yum-arch needs rpm and rpm-python - depending on what version you use - it needs little else. -sv
