On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> We have updated the server that pushes out the security errata and builds the 
> repoview area's.
> Along with the server update, we have updated createrepo and repoview.
>
> createrepo is now being run with the -d option which "generates sqlite 
> databases for use with yum."
> I know that several people had asked for this.
>
> We have also updated repoview to version 0.6.4.

rpmforge have a package of repoview 0.5.2 but I can't find a
package of 0.6.4 or an SL package of repoview. Should those
of use building local repos be using it ?

> This has a different 
> template.  It also puts the corresponding repoview web areas in a different 
> place.  Instead of putting the web pages in <area>/repodata they are now in 
> <area>/repoview
> For instance
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/updates/security/repoview/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/i386/errata/SL/RPMS/repoview/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/309/i386/errata/SL/RPMS/repoview/
>
> I haven't remove the old repoview area's, that are in the repodata directory, 
> but I plan on doing that in a couple weeks.  Probably just replacing their 
> main index.html web page with a redirecting web page.


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