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6 createrepo_c - Create rpm-md format (xml-rpm-metadata) repository
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9 createrepo_c [options] <directory>
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12 -V --version
13 Show program's version number and exit.
14 -q --quiet
16 Run quietly.
17 -v --verbose
19 Run verbosely.
20 -x --excludes PACKAGE_NAME_GLOB
22 File globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times.
23 --basedir BASEDIR
25 Basedir for path to directories.
26 -u --baseurl URL
28 Optional base URL location for all files.
29 -g --groupfile GROUPFILE
31 Path to groupfile to include in metadata.
32 -s --checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
34 Choose the checksum type used in repomd.xml and for packages in the
35 metadata. The default is now sha256.
36 -p --pretty
38 Make sure all xml generated is formatted (default)
39 -d --database
41 Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.
42 --no-database
44 Do not generate sqlite databases in the repository.
45 --update
47 If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged
48 (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated, reuse
49 the existing metadata rather than recalculating it. In the case of a
50 large repository with only a few new or modified rpms this can signifi‐
51 cantly reduce I/O and processing time.
52 --update-md-path
54 Use the existing repodata for --update from this path.
55 --skip-stat
57 Skip the stat() call on a --update, assumes if the filename is the same
58 then the file is still the same (only use this if you're fairly trust‐
59 ing or gullible).
60 --split
62 Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a
63 set of directories corresponding to different volumes in a media set.
64 Meta data is created in the first given directory
65 -i --pkglist FILENAME
67 Specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to
68 include in the repository from the set found in the directory. File
69 format is one package per line, no wildcards or globs.
70 -n --includepkg PACKAGE
72 Specify pkgs to include on the command line. Takes urls as well as
73 local paths.
74 -o --outputdir URL
76 Optional output directory.
77 -S --skip-symlinks
79 Ignore symlinks of packages.
80 --changelog-limit NUM
82 Only import the last N changelog entries, from each rpm, into the meta‐
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84 --unique-md-filenames
86 Include the file's checksum in the metadata filename, helps HTTP
87 caching (default).
88 --simple-md-filenames
90 Do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename.
91 --retain-old-md NUM
93 Keep around the latest (by timestamp) N copies of the old repodata.
94 --distro DISTRO
96 Distro tag and optional cpeid: --distro'cpeid,textname'.
97 --content CONTENT_TAGS
99 Tags for the content in the repository.
100 --repo REPO_TAGS
102 Tags to describe the repository itself.
103 --revision REVISION
105 User-specified revision for this repository.
106 --read-pkgs-list READ_PKGS_LIST
108 Output the paths to the pkgs actually read useful with --update.
109 --workers
111 Number of workers to spawn to read rpms.
112 --xz
114 Use xz for repodata compression.
115 --compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
117 Which compression type to use.
118 --general-compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
120 Which compression type to use (even for primary, filelists and other
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122 --keep-all-metadata
124 Keep groupfile and updateinfo from source repo during update.
125 --compatibility
127 Enforce maximal compatibility with classical createrepo.
128 --retain-old-md-by-age AGE
130 During --update, remove all files in repodata/ which are older then the
131 specified period of time. (e.g. '2h', '30d', ...). Available units (m -
132 minutes, h - hours, d - days)
133 -c --cachedir CACHEDIR.
135 Set path to cache dir
136 --deltas
138 Tells createrepo to generate deltarpms and the delta metadata.
139 --oldpackagedirs PATH
141 Paths to look for older pkgs to delta against. Can be specified multi‐
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143 --num-deltas INT
145 The number of older versions to make deltas against. Defaults to 1.
146 --max-delta-rpm-size MAX_DELTA_RPM_SIZE
148 Max size of an rpm that to run deltarpm against (in bytes).
149 --local-sqlite
151 Gen sqlite DBs locally (into a directory for temporary files). Some‐
152 times, sqlite has a trouble to gen DBs on a NFS mount, use this option
153 in such cases. This option could lead to a higher memory consumption if
154 TMPDIR is set to /tmp or not set at all, because then the /tmp is used
155 and /tmp dir is often a ramdisk.
156 --cut-dirs NUM
158 Ignore NUM of directory components in location_href during repodata
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160 --location-prefix PREFIX
162 Append this prefix before location_href in output repodata
163 --repomd-checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
165 Checksum type to be used in repomd.xml
166 --error-exit-val
168 Exit with retval 2 if there were any errors during processing
169 --ignore-lock
171 Expert (risky) option: Ignore an existing .repodata/. (Remove the
172 existing .repodata/ and create an empty new one to serve as a lock for
173 other createrepo intances. For the repodata generation, a different
174 temporary dir with the name in format .repodata.time.microseconds.pid/
175 will be used). NOTE: Use this option on your own risk! If two createre‐
176 pos run simultaneously, then the state of the generated metadata is not
177 guaranted - it can be inconsistent and wrong.
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