Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > > It's just a matter of calling "createrepo /dir/to/rpms/" to turn 
> > > them into YUM repos. For 10.0 those would work out of the box with 
> > > YaST or yum.
> >
> > That'd be one for Eberhard I would think, it is his server after all 
> > ;)
> >
> > ISTR this was trialed at one point[1]
> >
> > [1] See http://rubberturnip.org.uk/index.cgi/2005/08/06
> 
> first aspect: the yum support within apt4rpm/aptate is discarded currently
>               (needs investigation, current results are not sufficient).
>               To make it fully clear: "APT can generate YUM repositories
>               quite easily" was a hope only, in fact it is wrong, false,
>               no, not yet, what ever you need to understand "nope".

apt4rpm just calls createrepo. I wonder what's going wrong there... can 
you elaborate on that?


> second aspect: all my "suser-people" should try to do as much as possible
>                of the "repository generating" steps at home in order to
>                assure a just-in-time repository appearence as much as
>                possible.

Agreed.


Regards
	Christoph