repodata.xml

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com 
> [mailto:firmware-tools-devel-bounces at lists.us.dell.com] On 
> Behalf Of Eric Warnke
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 4:14 PM
> To: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: repodata.xml
> 
> I have a vanilla conetos 4.3 dell 1850 used for building the 
> firmware RPM's.  I am not a stranger to building and 
> maintaining repositories and followed the directions on the site.
> 
> The directions seem to indicate that you the output directory 
> is a repository, but in my case it is not because no 
> repodata.xml is present in the tree anywhere to be found.  
> Does createrepo still need to be run against the .rpm's or is 
> something going wrong on my system?

In line with the UNIX philosophy of chains of tools that do one thing
and do it well, we produce an output directory with RPMs, which is
structured in a way to make it easily importable to a repository. We do
not, ourselves, run createrepo, as we make no assumptions about what
kind of repo you would like to have, or that you have the repo tools
available on the same machine that you run the rpm creation scripts.

If you would like a yum repository, run createrepo. I also recommend
running repomanage to remove old versions and keep your repository size
manageable.
--
Michael