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createrepo

Section: (8)
Updated: 2005 Jan 2
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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 thistime)
-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 acache of checksums of packages in the repository. In consecutive runs ofcreaterepo over the same repository of files that do not have a completechange out of all packages this decreases the processing time dramatically.
--split: Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a set ofdirectories corresponding to different volumes in a media set.
-U --update-info-location <url>: Query a specified server for package update metadata.
-p --pretty: Output xml files in pretty format.
-V --version: Output version.
-h --help: Show help menu.

EXAMPLES

Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that thegroups 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.gzrepodata/other.xml.gzrepodata/primary.xml.gzrepodata/repomd.xml

AUTHORS

Seth Vidal <skvidalAATTphy.duke.edu>

BUGS

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

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