[CentOS-devel] deltarpm and presto for centos

Wed Nov 18 15:19:46 UTC 2009
Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Farkas Levente wrote:

> FYI:
> now i able to do build and run delta update on my systems, but there was
> a few problems:
> - i use http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/'s
> createrepo-0.9.8-2.el5 for generating deltarpms and delta repo and use
> fedora's yum-presto.
> - unfortunately this version of createrepo is not able to generate sha1
> checksum for the repo (at least even if i set it on the command line
> i've got a python stack trace), but rhel/centos-5 doesn't have sha256 in
> python my default so you've to install python-hashlib and add createrepo
> to depend on it. imho it's a createrepo bug.


createrepo -s sha /path/

works just fine for me on 0.9.8-2

If you have a bug, file it.


-sv