[CentOS-devel] updated yum packages are now available in c5-testing

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 00:04 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, James Antill wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 23:57 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:34:55PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> >> > Can you be a little bit more specific ? Is there a thread describing the 
> >> > issue ? Is there going to be a real fix for it ?
> >
> > The BZ I can easily find is RH 465898:
> >
> > [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465898
> > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable error in
> > sqlitesack.py:94:_read_db_obj (pkgId can't be found)]
> >
> > ...although I'm sure we discussed something with You or Axel at one
> > point about multiple pkgId's in one repo.
> 
> It wasn't me. How can multiple pkgId's be in one repo ?

 The pkgId is¹ just the sha1sum of the .rpm file (from the checksum
element), so the easiest way is:

% mkdir foo foo/1 foo/2
% cp yum-3.2.20-3.fc10.noarch.rpm foo/1
% cp yum-3.2.20-3.fc10.noarch.rpm foo/2
% createrepo foo

...the usual way I've seen this happen is due to multilib (two .i386
packages, one in a i386 dir. and one in a x86_64 dir. say).

> I can add that I would be happy to use the latest and greatest createrepo 
> if those newer versions would work with older distributions (namely, older 
> python versions) and if they can produce metadata that works with older 
> yum/apt releases as well. (Also on RHEL2.1 and RH7.3 systems)

 AFAIK noone has any plans to backport any version of createrepo to work
with RHEL-2.1 or older.
 There is a nebulous plan to create a simple script² which can be used
on "older" releases, which will take the normal createrepo (without -d)
and just add the .sqlite files in.
 How far back it'll go isn't clear yet (having not been written), but
I'd guess that without help from you RHEL-2.1 is probably not going to
be tested.


¹ This will probably change a bit "soon", but mainly for Fedora 11 /
CentOS 6 timeframes ... and it should just work with older/current
createrepo too.

² In theory this is easy in that it just needs to call the APIs yum
calls, and then do the modifyrepo thing ... but again noone's done it,
yet.

-- 
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora