Steve Traylen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Currently you must be running something along the lines of
> 
>    createrepo  ..../linux/scientific/52/i386
> 
>  to generate the YUM metadata?
> 
>  Please could you consider adding a '-d' option as well.
> 
>  createrepo -d  ..../linux/scientific/52/i386
> 
>  this creates all the existing meta data but also the
>  sqlite files as well. The advantage of this is the subsequent
>  yum queries are significantly faster.
> 
>  Clearly the same would have to  be applied for all sl5x repositories to
>  be sensible.
> 
>  The other reason is that the "mergerepos" script used by very recent versions
>  of koji would then be able to make use of the SL repositories as an
> external repository.
> 
>  Unfortunately the -d option is not available in the sl4 version
>  of createrepo nor does yum make any use of those files. For the koji
>  reasons above though the sqlite data would be useful but clearly I understand
>  why you may not want to do that.
> 
>  Many Thanks.
> 
>   Steve
> 

Hi Steve,
I'm looking into this.
It's not the hard to change the scripts, but the machine that does the 
errata is SL4, and it's version of createrepo doesn't have the -d 
option.  If I remember right, we've tried to update this machine's 
creatrepo to a newer version but something didn't work right.
Anyway, the answer isn't no, at least for the errata, fastbugs, and 
contrib.  But it's something we'll have to look into.
Troy
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