[CentOS-devel] sqlite enabled repodata

Thu Mar 12 15:39:52 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>


On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:57 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, David Hrbáč wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> within the update to 5.3 I guess it would be interesting to provide
>>>> sqlite enabled repos. yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos is prepared for that.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> all the yum developers think this is a good idea.
>>
>> AFAIK this is planned. Karanbir: Correct me if I'm wrong :)
>
> AFAIK the only problem is that the repos. are created on CentOS-4, so
> createrepo with support for this doesn't work. Seth did the following
> code:
>
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/makerepodb.py
>
> ...but that needs integrating into your repo. creation scripts.

And it will only work properly if the version of yum-metadata-parser is 
current.

-sv