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New File Handling
Tomas Mlcoch edited this page May 6, 2014
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MF - Metadata file - A file inside the
repodata/and listed in therepomd.xml. -
OF - Other file - A file inside the
repodata/directory but NOT LISTED in therepomd.xml.
Regardless if used with or without --update createrepo output repodata/ looks like:
- All OFs stay there with unmodified content.
- Some MFs are regenerated. According to command line parameters at least the
primary.xml,filelists.xml,other.xml. MFs like groupfile (--groupfile) or databases (--database) could be regenerated as well if the options are used. - All MFs that were listed in the
repomd.xmland are not being regenerated, are kept in therepodata/directory but not referenced by the newrepomd.xmlanymore. (See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950301#c1) - This behavior leads to the situation where old and outdated files like groupfiles or updateinfos are accumulating in the
repodata/directory over the time.
Regardless if used with or without --update, createrepo_c output repodata/ looks like:
- All OFs stay there with unmodified content, but each file is a copy so the file's metadata like mtime or number of hardlinks may be altered.
- All MFs are regenerated or removed.
- All MFs are regular files (not symlinks).
- All MFs have a number of hardlink references equal to 1.
mkdir testrepo && testrepo
touch comps_a comps_b
createrepo --no-database --simple-md-filenames --groupfile comps_a .
repodata/ contains: comps_a comps_a.gz filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml
createrepo --no-database --simple-md-filenames --groupfile comps_b --update .
repodata/ contains: comps_a comps_a.gz comps_b comps_b.gz filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml
createrepo_c --no-database --simple-md-filenames --groupfile comps_a .
repodata/ contains: comps_a comps_a.gz filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml
createrepo_c --no-database --simple-md-filenames --groupfile comps_b --update .
repodata/ contains: comps_b comps_b.gz filelists.xml.gz other.xml.gz primary.xml.gz repomd.xml