Quoting Jan Zelený <jzeleny@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On 4.?12.?2013 at 14:13:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
one last question for the day. i was experimenting with
creating a local yum repository on fedora 19 following along
here:
http://www.unixmen.com/setup-local-yum-repository-in-fedora-19/
and it seemed to work fine, but the resulting structure was
simpler than i was used to -- the end result was (in my case)
a new repository under /usr/local/repo in which the rpm files
were right at the top level, along with the repodata/ directory.
from my previous usage of fedora repos, i'm used to having a
top-level repodata/ directory, along with a Packages/ directory,
which is further broken down based on the first letter of the
package name.
so what are the valid variations that will be (automatically?)
recognized by yum? i'm guessing the top-level repodata/ directory
is mandatory but, beyond that, what kind of variations can be
used to store the rpm files? thanks.
I'm not an expert so I might be wrong on this but I've seen a lot of
different
repo layouts so my assumption based on observation is that createrepo
recursively scans the directory you want and the just creates repodata subdir
with metadata containing information about all the relevant content (rpm
packages) in the scanned directory.
that would appear to be what's happening based on a test i just
ran. i created a new directory, /usr/local/repob/pkgs/b/, and copied
into it all fedora 19 rpm files starting with the letter "b". then
i ran "createrepo" from higher up the directory structure with:
# createrepo /usr/local/repob
and it appeared to create a new local yum repository just fine by
recursively searching the entire directory structure. i verified that
by creating a quick /etc/yum.repos.d/ .conf file for the new repo and
using "repoquery" to list its packages, and they were all there.
so it appears that createrepo, by default, recursively scans
the "/path/to/rpms/" directory, but that doesn't seem to be
mentioned anywhere in the man page, and i think that's a useful
bit of information to know.
rday
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