Has anybody successfully implemented DRPMs on centos 5.x? I searched the net and I found a few indications that it is possible, but there is very little info how to do it.
Just to be clear. With DRPMs i mean deltaRPMs. And with implementation i mean What yum plugins are necessary and what has to be done on the yum repository to make it work.
BR Janez
On 11/25/2009 01:00 PM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
Has anybody successfully implemented DRPMs on centos 5.x? I searched the net and I found a few indications that it is possible, but there is very little info how to do it.
Just to be clear. With DRPMs i mean deltaRPMs. And with implementation i mean What yum plugins are necessary and what has to be done on the yum repository to make it work.
yes i do. yum-presto and deltarpm are easy but you've to build a custom createrepo packages.
Do you have some manual or howto you used to do it? Like i said, there is wery litle info on the web, how to do it.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Farkas Levente lfarkas@lfarkas.org wrote:
On 11/25/2009 01:00 PM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
Has anybody successfully implemented DRPMs on centos 5.x? I searched the net and I found a few indications that it is possible, but there is very little info how to do it.
Just to be clear. With DRPMs i mean deltaRPMs. And with implementation i mean What yum plugins are necessary and what has to be done on the yum repository to make it work.
yes i do. yum-presto and deltarpm are easy but you've to build a custom createrepo packages.
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
OK I figgured out the client part. But unfortunately this was the easy part. I still can't figure out, what i'm doing wrong on the server. I tried installing deltarpm package from epel and the newest createrepo package from atrpms (deltarpm from here won't install because it is build against a newer rpm package and I don't like to change the rpm package on my system). But when i run:* createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs /dir /dir* i get some obscure python errors, that I can't figure out.
I tried the same commandon on an fedora 11 machine wiht the default fedora packages installed and it works without problems. As far as i can see the versions of createrepo on fedora and centos (the atrpms package) are the same. the only different part is the python version, but that shouldn't be the problem, since I looked at the .spec file from createrepo and it only requires python 2.1 and centos has 2.4.
Does someone have a newer createrepo rpm package, that works on centos?
BR
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Janez Kosmrlj postnalista@googlemail.comwrote:
Do you have some manual or howto you used to do it? Like i said, there is wery litle info on the web, how to do it.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Farkas Levente lfarkas@lfarkas.orgwrote:
On 11/25/2009 01:00 PM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
Has anybody successfully implemented DRPMs on centos 5.x? I searched the net and I found a few indications that it is possible, but there is very little info how to do it.
Just to be clear. With DRPMs i mean deltaRPMs. And with implementation i mean What yum plugins are necessary and what has to be done on the yum repository to make it work.
yes i do. yum-presto and deltarpm are easy but you've to build a custom createrepo packages.
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj postnalista@googlemail.com wrote:
OK I figgured out the client part. But unfortunately this was the easy part. I still can't figure out, what i'm doing wrong on the server. I tried installing deltarpm package from epel and the newest createrepo package from atrpms (deltarpm from here won't install because it is build against a newer rpm package and I don't like to change the rpm package on my system). But when i run: createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs /dir /dir i get some obscure python errors, that I can't figure out.
Maybe pastebin it so people can help :)
Cheers Didi
OK this is the error I get.
createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs . .
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 222, in ? main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 196, in main mdgen.doPkgMetadata() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 358, in doPkgMetadata self.writeMetadataDocs(packages) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 503, in writeMetadataDocs self._do_delta_rpm_package(po) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 598, in _do_delta_rpm_package opd = self._get_old_package_dict() # yes I could make this a property but <shrug> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 642, in _get_old_package_dict self.callback.log("Skipping %s package " \ NameError: global name 'pkg' is not defined
Br
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann ribalba@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj postnalista@googlemail.com wrote:
OK I figgured out the client part. But unfortunately this was the easy
part.
I still can't figure out, what i'm doing wrong on the server. I tried installing deltarpm package from epel and the newest createrepo package from atrpms (deltarpm from here won't install because it is build against a newer rpm package and I don't like to change the rpm package on
my
system). But when i run: createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs /dir /dir i get some obscure python errors, that I can't figure out.
Maybe pastebin it so people can help :)
Cheers Didi
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On 11/27/2009 11:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
OK I figgured out the client part. But unfortunately this was the easy part. I still can't figure out, what i'm doing wrong on the server. I tried installing deltarpm package from epel and the newest createrepo package from atrpms (deltarpm from here won't install because it is build against a newer rpm package and I don't like to change the rpm package on my system). But when i run:* /createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs /dir /dir/* i get some obscure python errors, that I can't figure out.
I tried the same commandon on an fedora 11 machine wiht the default fedora packages installed and it works without problems. As far as i can see the versions of createrepo on fedora and centos (the atrpms package) are the same. the only different part is the python version, but that shouldn't be the problem, since I looked at the .spec file from createrepo and it only requires python 2.1 and centos has 2.4.
Does someone have a newer createrepo rpm package, that works on centos?
you need newer createrepo and yum-presto: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/ and don't set checkum eg i used to use this command: ----------------------------------------- createrepo -c /var/cache/createrepo -d --update --checkts --skip-stat --deltas --oldpackagedirs <dir> <dir> ----------------------------------------- of course create a /var/cache/createrepo before run, or if you've time: ----------------------------------------- createrepo -d --deltas --oldpackagedirs <dir> <dir> -----------------------------------------
I finally managed to do it. server: I had to rebuild the latest createrepo package from sourcerpm: wget http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-0.9.8-1.src.rpm rpm2cpio createrepo-0.9.8-1.src.rpm | cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames change yum dependency to yum >= 3.2.22 in the spec file rpmbuild -bb createrepo.spec install freshly build createrepo package install deltarpm from epel createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs ../base/ .
client: deltarpm from epel rebuild yum-presto >= 0.4 rpmbuild --rebuild http://www.lesbg.com/jdieter/presto/yum-presto-0.4.1-1.fc7.src.rpm install fresh yum-presto package in your updates yum repos conf file add deltarpm= http://updateserver/path_to_updatedir
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Farkas Levente lfarkas@lfarkas.orgwrote:
On 11/27/2009 11:14 AM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
OK I figgured out the client part. But unfortunately this was the easy
part.
I still can't figure out, what i'm doing wrong on the server. I tried installing deltarpm package from epel and the newest createrepo package from atrpms (deltarpm from here won't install because it is build against a newer rpm package and I don't like to change the rpm package on my system). But when i run:* /createrepo --database --deltas -s sha --oldpackagedirs /dir /dir/* i get some obscure python errors, that I can't figure out.
I tried the same commandon on an fedora 11 machine wiht the default fedora packages installed and it works without problems. As far as i can see the versions of createrepo on fedora and centos (the atrpms package) are the same. the only different part is the python version, but that shouldn't be the problem, since I looked at the .spec file from createrepo and it only requires python 2.1 and centos has 2.4.
Does someone have a newer createrepo rpm package, that works on centos?
you need newer createrepo and yum-presto: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/i386/other/RPMS/ and don't set checkum eg i used to use this command:
createrepo -c /var/cache/createrepo -d --update --checkts --skip-stat
--deltas --oldpackagedirs <dir> <dir>
of course create a /var/cache/createrepo before run, or if you've time:
createrepo -d --deltas --oldpackagedirs <dir> <dir>
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 11/25/2009 12:00 PM, Janez Kosmrlj wrote:
Has anybody successfully implemented DRPMs on centos 5.x? I searched the net and I found a few indications that it is possible, but there is very little info how to do it.
We are not doing this in CentOS itself, since it changes what is delivered and audited / tested with the distro and the upstream systems. It also changes the state of what you might refer to as 'supported' and 'secure' by third party vendors.
Ofcourse you are free to set this up for yourself and work out if any of the fallouts are even applicable or you and if the change in risk and its perception has any implications to your usecase.
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