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createrepo

NAME

createrepo - Create repomd (xml-rpm-metadata) repository

SYNOPSIS

createrepo [options] <directory>

DESCRIPTION

createrepo is a program that creates a repomd (xml-based rpm metadata) repository from a set of rpms.

OPTIONS

-u --baseurl <url>

Optional base url location for all files. (not used by any clients at this time)

-o --outputdir <url>

Optional output directory (useful for read only media).

-x --exclude <package>

File globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times.

-q --quiet

Run quietly.

-g --groupfile <groupfile>

A precreated xml filename to point to for group information.
See examples section below for further explanation.

-v --verbose

Run verbosely.

-c --cachedir <path>

Specify a directory to use as a cachedir. This allows createrepo to create a cache of checksums of packages in the repository. In consecutive runs of createrepo over the same repository of files that do not have a complete change out of all packages this decreases the processing time dramatically.

--update

If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated, reuse the existing metadata rather than recalculating it. In the case of a large repository with only a few new or modified rpms this can significantly reduce I/O and processing time.

-C --checkts

Don't generate repo metadata, if their timestamps are newer than its rpms. This option decreases the processing time drastically again, if you happen to run it on an unmodified repo, but it is (currently) mutual exclusive with the --split option.

--split

Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a set of directories corresponding to different volumes in a media set.

-p --pretty

Output xml files in pretty format.

-V --version

Output version.

-h --help

Show help menu.

-d --database

Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.

EXAMPLES

Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e. /path/to/rpms/comps.xml).

createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms

FILES

repodata/filelists.xml.gz

repodata/other.xml.gz

repodata/primary.xml.gz

repodata/repomd.xml 

SEE ALSO

yum (8) yum.conf (5)

AUTHORS

Seth Vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>

BUGS

Any bugs which are found should be emailed to the mailing list: rpm-metadata@linux.duke.edu