[OM Cooker] createrepo_c can't build

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Mon Mar 7 17:18:34 EST 2016


> On Mar 7, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Tomasz Paweł Gajc <tpgxyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> i tried to build createrepo_c as an enabler to switch to modern repository metadata generator. Unfortunately it fails, and i guess it's because RPM5. Without this is will be hard to replace urpmi with DNF.
> 

There are other means than createrepo_c to generate rpm-metadata that DNF can use, including
createrepo in python, rpmrepo, and/or the rpm CLI.

Furthermore delta rpm functionality (which is technically where the build failure resides) is a very
different (and optional wrote DNF) effort than building createrepo_c.

hth

73 de Jeff

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