On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:25:04PM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > 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. That would be great, thanks. > 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. From what I can see, the SRPMs are there just not in the metadata. If I find any that are missing I will be sure to let you know. Elliot -- Elliot Peele rPath, Inc. [log in to unmask]