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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 Path patterns to exclude, can be specified multiple times. The pat‐
23 terns are matched against relative paths to RPMs. Note that the fea‐
24 ture uses g_pattern_match() function, not glob(), for semantic differ‐
25 ences see https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Glob-style-pat‐
26 tern-matching.html
27 --basedir BASEDIR
29 Basedir for path to directories.
30 -u --baseurl URL
32 Optional base URL location for all files.
33 -g --groupfile GROUPFILE
35 Path to groupfile to include in metadata.
36 -s --checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
38 Choose the checksum type used in repomd.xml and for packages in the
39 metadata. The default is now sha256.
40 -p --pretty
42 Make sure all xml generated is formatted (default)
43 -d --database
45 Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.
46 --no-database
48 Do not generate sqlite databases in the repository.
49 --update
51 If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged
52 (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated, reuse
53 the existing metadata rather than recalculating it. In the case of a
54 large repository with only a few new or modified rpms this can signifi‐
55 cantly reduce I/O and processing time.
56 --update-md-path
58 Use the existing repodata for --update from this path.
59 --skip-stat
61 Skip the stat() call on a --update, assumes if the filename is the same
62 then the file is still the same (only use this if you're fairly trust‐
63 ing or gullible).
64 --split
66 Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a
67 set of directories corresponding to different volumes in a media set.
68 Meta data is created in the first given directory
69 -i --pkglist FILENAME
71 Specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to
72 include in the repository from the set found in the directory. File
73 format is one package per line, no wildcards or globs.
74 -n --includepkg PACKAGE
76 Specify pkgs to include on the command line. Takes urls as well as
77 local paths.
78 --recycle-pkglist
80 Useful only with --update. Read the list of packages from old meta‐
81 data, and reuse it instead of (perhaps expensive) directory traversal.
82 This doesn't collide with explicitly selected packages by --pkglist or
83 --includepkg, such packages are appended to the recycled list. This
84 option is useful for I/O optimal repo modifications (package removal by
85 --exclude, and additions with --pkglist).
86 -o --outputdir URL
88 Optional output directory.
89 -S --skip-symlinks
91 Ignore symlinks of packages.
92 --changelog-limit NUM
94 Only import the last N changelog entries, from each rpm, into the meta‐
95 data.
96 --unique-md-filenames
98 Include the file's checksum in the metadata filename, helps HTTP
99 caching (default).
100 --simple-md-filenames
102 Do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename.
103 --retain-old-md NUM
105 Specify NUM to 0 to remove all repodata present in old repomd.xml or
106 any other positive number to keep all old repodata. Use --compatibility
107 flag to get the behavior of original createrepo: Keep around the latest
108 (by timestamp) NUM copies of the old repodata (works only for primary,
109 filelists, other and their DB variants).
110 --distro DISTRO
112 Distro tag and optional cpeid: --distro'cpeid,textname'.
113 --content CONTENT_TAGS
115 Tags for the content in the repository.
116 --repo REPO_TAGS
118 Tags to describe the repository itself.
119 --revision REVISION
121 User-specified revision for this repository.
122 --set-timestamp-to-revision
124 Set timestamp fields in repomd.xml and last modification times of cre‐
125 ated repodata to a value given with --revision. This requires --revi‐
126 sion to be a timestamp formated in 'date +%s' format.
127 --read-pkgs-list READ_PKGS_LIST
129 Output the paths to the pkgs actually read useful with --update.
130 --workers
132 Number of workers to spawn to read rpms.
133 --xz
135 Use xz for repodata compression.
136 --compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
138 Which compression type to use.
139 --general-compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
141 Which compression type to use (even for primary, filelists and other
142 xml).
143 --zck
145 Generate zchunk files as well as the standard repodata.
146 --zck-dict-dir ZCK_DICT_DIR
148 Directory containing compression dictionaries for use by zchunk
149 --keep-all-metadata
151 Keep all additional metadata (not primary, filelists and other xml or
152 sqlite files, nor their compressed variants) from source repository
153 during update.
154 --compatibility
156 Enforce maximal compatibility with classical createrepo (Affects only:
157 --retain-old-md).
158 --retain-old-md-by-age AGE
160 During --update, remove all files in repodata/ which are older then the
161 specified period of time. (e.g. '2h', '30d', ...). Available units (m -
162 minutes, h - hours, d - days)
163 -c --cachedir CACHEDIR.
165 Set path to cache dir
166 --deltas
168 Tells createrepo to generate deltarpms and the delta metadata.
169 --oldpackagedirs PATH
171 Paths to look for older pkgs to delta against. Can be specified multi‐
172 ple times.
173 --num-deltas INT
175 The number of older versions to make deltas against. Defaults to 1.
176 --max-delta-rpm-size MAX_DELTA_RPM_SIZE
178 Max size of an rpm that to run deltarpm against (in bytes).
179 --local-sqlite
181 Gen sqlite DBs locally (into a directory for temporary files). Some‐
182 times, sqlite has a trouble to gen DBs on a NFS mount, use this option
183 in such cases. This option could lead to a higher memory consumption if
184 TMPDIR is set to /tmp or not set at all, because then the /tmp is used
185 and /tmp dir is often a ramdisk.
186 --cut-dirs NUM
188 Ignore NUM of directory components in location_href during repodata
189 generation
190 --location-prefix PREFIX
192 Append this prefix before location_href in output repodata
193 --repomd-checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
195 Checksum type to be used in repomd.xml
196 --error-exit-val
198 Exit with retval 2 if there were any errors during processing
199 --ignore-lock
201 Expert (risky) option: Ignore an existing .repodata/. (Remove the
202 existing .repodata/ and create an empty new one to serve as a lock for
203 other createrepo intances. For the repodata generation, a different
204 temporary dir with the name in format .repodata.time.microseconds.pid/
205 will be used). NOTE: Use this option on your own risk! If two createre‐
206 pos run simultaneously, then the state of the generated metadata is not
207 guaranted - it can be inconsistent and wrong.
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