createrepo(8)

1createrepo(8)                                                    createrepo(8)
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NAME

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

10       createrepo [options] <directory>
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DESCRIPTION

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

18       -u --baseurl <url>
19              Optional base url location for  all  files.  (not  used  by  any
20              clients at this time)
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22       -o --outputdir <url>
23              Optional output directory (useful for read only media).
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25       -x --exclude <package>
26              File globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times.
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28       -i --pkglist <filename>
29              specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to
30              include in the repository from the set found in  the  directory.
31              File format is one package per line, no wildcards or globs.
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33       -n --includepkg
34              specify  pkgs to include on the command line. Takes urls as well
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41              A precreated xml filename to point to for group information.
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47       -c --cachedir <path>
48              Specify a directory to use as a cachedir. This allows createrepo
49              to create a cache of checksums of packages in the repository. In
50              consecutive runs of createrepo over the same repository of files
51              that  do  not  have  a  complete change out of all packages this
52              decreases the processing time dramatically.
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54       --update
55              If metadata already exists  in  the  outputdir  and  an  rpm  is
56              unchanged  (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was
57              generated, reuse the existing metadata rather than recalculating
58              it.  In  the  case  of a large repository with only a few new or
59              modified rpms this can significantly reduce I/O  and  processing
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62       --skip-stat
63              skip  the  stat() call on a --update, assumes if the filename is
64              the same then the file is still  the  same  (only  use  this  if
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67       -C --checkts
68              Don't generate repo metadata, if their timestamps are newer than
69              its rpms.  This option decreases the processing time drastically
70              again,  if you happen to run it on an unmodified repo, but it is
71              (currently) mutual exclusive with the --split option.
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74              Run in split media mode. Rather than pass  a  single  directory,
75              take  a set of directories corresponding to different volumes in
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78       -p --pretty
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81       -V --version
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89              Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.
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95              Choose the checksum type used in repomd.xml and for packages  in
96              the  metadata.  The default is now "sha256" (if python has hash‐
97              lib). The older default was "sha",  which  is  actually  "sha1",
98              however  explicitly  using  "sha1" doesn't work on older (3.0.x)
99              versions of yum, you need to specify "sha".
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101       --profile
102              Output time based profiling information.
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104       --changelog-limit CHANGELOG_LIMIT
105              Only import the last N changelog entries, from  each  rpm,  into
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108       --unique-md-filenames
109              Include the file's checksum in the metadata filename, helps HTTP
110              caching
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112       --distro
113              Specify distro tags. Can be specified more than  once.  Optional
114              syntax    specifying   a   cpeid(http://cpe.mitre.org/)   --dis‐
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117       --content
118              Specify keyword/tags about the content of the repository. Can be
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121       --revision
122              Arbitrary string for a repository revision.
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124       --deltas
125              Tells createrepo to generate deltarpms and the delta metadata
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127       --oldpackagedirs PATH
128              paths  to look for older pkgs to delta against. Can be specified
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132              the number of older versions to make deltas against. Defaults to
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EXAMPLES

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

146       repodata/filelists.xml.gz
147       repodata/other.xml.gz
148       repodata/primary.xml.gz
149       repodata/repomd.xml
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AUTHORS

156       See the Authors file
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BUGS

160       Any  bugs  which  are found should be emailed to the mailing list: rpm-
161       metadata@lists.baseurl.org  or  reported  in   trac   at:   http://cre‐
162       aterepo.baseurl.org
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166Seth Vidal                        2005 Jan 2                     createrepo(8)