Hi Just a trivial patch. createrepo is ignoring the long options --quiet and --verbose. Attached patch should fix it. Please consider applying. Arun Bhanu diff -uprN createrepo-0.4.2/genpkgmetadata.py createrepo-devel/genpkgmetadata.py --- createrepo-0.4.2/genpkgmetadata.py 2005-01-18 15:20:25.000000000 +0800 +++ createrepo-devel/genpkgmetadata.py 2005-05-18 07:23:50.000000000 +0800 @@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ def parseArgs(args): try: for arg,a in gopts: - if arg == '-v': + if arg in ['-v', '--verbose']: cmds['verbose'] = 1 - elif arg == "-q": + elif arg in ['-q', '--quiet']: cmds['quiet'] = 1 elif arg in ['-u', '--baseurl']: if cmds['baseurl'] is not None: