On Monday 22 November 2004 14:55, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Incidentally, I haven't understood how one keeps the metadata > > on a local repository up to date. > > Is one meant to run createrepo repeatedly? > > Anytime you change the packages available in the repository...yes you > have to run createrepo. That's sort of the point... the metadata is > an accurate representation of the packages available at that location. > You make any changes to the list of packages in the repository and you > regenerate the metadata. Tbanks for the helpful suggestions. I guess I thought "createrepo" doesn't sound like the right command to keep a repo in sync. Maybe it should be configrepo, or something like that. Also "createrepo -h", which seems the only documentation for this command, does not say anything about keeping a repo up-to-date. > If you mirror another repository and mirror all its packages and its > metadata, you don't have to do anything with createrepo...the > mirroring process if you do it correctly...keeps the metadata and the > package list in sync. I guess it seems simplest to mirror the fedora-update repository locally. But what exactly do I need from such a site? Is there a script available which will collect the rpms and any metadata required? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland