Elliot Peele wrote:
> I am working on importing Scientific Linux into a Conary repository as
> part of our contract with the DOE. You can track the progress of this
> project in our issue tracking system:
> 
> https://issues.rpath.com/browse/PFM-359
> 
> Once the import is complete, Scientific Linux will be made available as
> a platform on rBuilder Online (http://www.rpath.org), allowing people to
> easily consume just enough of Scientific Linux to run their appliaction
> in the virtual or installable formfactor of their choice.
> 
> Unlike the other platforms that we have imported thus far, we intend to
> import all of Scientific Linux so that it is available as a complete
> desktop system as well as a platform for building small appliances.
> 
> 
> In my initial investigation I found that some of the repository metadata
> seems to be out of sync with the contents of the repository. For
> instance SL_desktop_tweaks-5-7.src.rpm is not in the metadata for the
> SRPM repository, but the corresponding binary RPMs can be found in the
> 52 i386 and x86_64 repositories.
> 
> This inconsistency breaks the application that I use to do the import. I
> would appreciate it if someone could regenerate the metadata for the
> SRPM repository.
> 
> I am currently planning to base off of 5.3 since it seems to be about
> ready. Is there any planned release date for 5.3?
> 
> Elliot
> 

Hi Elliot,
Is the SRPMS directory the only one that is having a problem?  We 
currently don't do a createrepo on those, mainly because yum didn't use 
it correctly, so we didn't do it.  But we can easily put it into our 
script so that it does a createrepo in the SRPM directories.

About missing src rpm's.  Can you get me a list of what is missing.  It 
is often that our handmade rpm's get missed, because they don't go 
through the usual channels.  I'm certain I could quickly make a list, 
but right at the moment I am swamped, and it looks like you already have 
a list.

Troy
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