On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 18:05 -0400, Greg Ward wrote: > I am starting to maintain a collection of yum repositories on an > Ubuntu machine. (Most of our workstations are Red Hat-ish, hence yum. > I like Debian and Ubuntu, so that's what the server is running.) So > I figured I would need a "private" copy of a recent version of > createrepo somewhere near the repositories. (By "private" I just mean > "not in /usr/bin", not "nobody else can run it".) > > (Incidentally, an old version of createrepo, 0.4.6, is packaged for my > Ubuntu version (feisty, 7.04), I *could* just "apt-get install > createrepo". But that's so ... so ... uninteresting. Easy, even. > And I'm hoping more recent versions are faster.) > > I have had a number of problems getting this working. Some are > cultural, like I expect a README file to tell me what other packages > are required to get this package working. I just figured out "look in > the spec file, stupid", and indeed, there they are. I would suggest > adding a sentence to both yum and createrepo's README files along the > lines of "look in the spec file, stupid". Will happily provide > patches. > > (On reflection, I think it would be nice to have more details in the > README: when someone is building from source, they are more likely to > have to go dig up sources for required packages. For example, yum > imports gpgme with no explanation -- apart from a "Requires" line in > the spec file -- of what gpgme is or how I satisfy that dependency. I > had to boot up a vmware of an FC7 machine, run "yum install pygpgme", > and follow the URL in the installed package. Ouch! It would have > been much easier if the URL had been in yum's README in the first > place. Or INSTALL, whatever.) > > Also, I don't understand why createrepo needs 400+ lines of make in > four Makefiles. I just wrote a 6-line setup.py that does 80% of what > "make install" does, and I think I could add the remaining 20% pretty > easily. Is there a reason yum and createrepo use make instead of > distutils? If not, I'll happily provide setup scripts too. > > Anyways. I am getting closer, but have not pulled it off yet. Let me > know if you want those patches. And remind me to write up how I pull > this off, if in fact I do. ;-) > Hi Greg, Thanks for your depiction of things. If you have patches to createrepo - please send them to the rpm-metadata list - on this same server. We'll take a look at them and see what's what. thanks, -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
