Anyone know how to use createrepo {or is there another tool} to create
useful repodata for a mounted dvd.iso image for say fedora core.
It seems that while the image includes a toplevel /repodata folder, when
it is mounted and yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo is pointed at the / of
the mounted iso image, yum is not happy with what it finds.
I have used createrepo folder option to create a new repodata directory
and repo one folder above where the iso is mounted, so that the folder
is read/write, and the create can succeed.
createrepo -o . disc/Fedora/RPMS/
What I find is that primary.xml does not include the relative path from
the folder above the new repodata directory, and hence fails. {actually
it includes only the filename of the rpm files not any path at all.}
folder where iso is mounted:
/home/install/software/linux/fedora/core/6/yum/i386/disc
location of rpms:
/home/install/software/linux/fedora/core/6/yum/i386/disc/Fedora/RPMS
writable location: {where yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo baseurl will point}
/home/install/software/linux/fedora/core/6/yum/i386/
What is the appropriate command to generate usable repodata ?
DaveT.
