createrepo(8)

NAME
createrepo - Create repomd (xml-rpm-metadata) repository

SYNOPSIS
createrepo [options] <directory>

DESCRIPTION
createrepo is a program that creates a repomd (xml-based rpm metadata) repository from a set of rpms.

OPTIONS

-u --baseurl <url>
    Optional base URL location for all files.

-o --outputdir <url>
    Optional output directory (useful for read only media).

-x --excludes <package>
    File globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times.

-i --pkglist <filename>
    specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to include in the repository from the set found in the directory. File format is one package per line, no wildcards or globs.

-n --includepkg
    specify pkgs to include on the command line. Takes urls as well as local paths.

-q --quiet
    Run quietly.

-g --groupfile <groupfile>
    A precreated xml filename to point to for group information.
    See examples section below for further explanation.

-v --verbose
    Run verbosely.

-c --cachedir <path>
    Specify a directory to use as a cachedir. This allows createrepo to create a cache of checksums of packages in the repository. In consecutive runs of createrepo over the same repository of files that do not have a complete change out of all packages this decreases the processing time dramatically.

--basedir
    Basedir for path to directories in the repodata, default is the current working directory.

--update
    If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged (based on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated, reuse the existing metadata rather than recalculating it. In the case of a large repository with only a few new or modified rpms this can significantly reduce I/O and processing time.

--skip-stat
    skip the stat() call on a --update, assumes if the filename is the same then the file is still the same (only use this if you're fairly trusting or gullible).

--update-md-path
    Use the existing repodata for --update, from this path.

-C --checkts
    Don't generate repo metadata, if their timestamps are newer than its rpms. This option decreases the processing time drastically again, if you happen to run it on an unmodified repo, but it is (currently) mutual exclusive with the --split option. NOTE: This command will not notice when packages have been removed from repo. Use --update to handle that.

--split
    Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a set of directories corresponding to different volumes in a media set.

-p --pretty
    Output xml files in pretty format.

--version
    Output version.

-h --help
    Show help menu.

-d --database
    Generate sqlite databases for use with yum. This is now the default.

--no-database
    Do not generate sqlite databases in the repository.

-S --skip-symlinks
    Ignore symlinks of packages

-s --checksum
    Choose the checksum type used in repomd.xml and for packages in the metadata. The default is now "sha256" (if python has hashlib). The older default was "sha", which is actually "sha1", however explicitly using "sha1" doesn't work on older (3.0.x) versions of yum, you need to specify "sha".

--profile
    Output time based profiling information.

--changelog-limit CHANGELOG_LIMIT
    Only import the last N changelog entries, from each rpm, into the metadata

--unique-md-filenames
    Include the file's checksum in the metadata filename, helps HTTP caching (default)

--simple-md-filenames
    Do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename.

--retain-old-md
    Keep around the latest (by timestamp) N copies of the old repodata (so clients with older repomd.xml files can still access it). Default is 0.

--distro
    Specify distro tags. Can be specified more than once. Optional syntax specifying a cpeid(http://cpe.mitre.org/) --distro=cpeid,distrotag

--content
    Specify keyword/tags about the content of the repository. Can be specified more than once.

--repo
    Specify keyword/tags about the repository itself. Can be specified more than once.

--revision
    Arbitrary string for a repository revision.

--deltas
    Tells createrepo to generate deltarpms and the delta metadata

--oldpackagedirs PATH
    paths to look for older pkgs to delta against. Can be specified multiple times

--num-deltas int
    the number of older versions to make deltas against. Defaults to 1

--read-pkgs-list READ_PKGS_LIST
    output the paths to the pkgs actually read useful with --update

--max-delta-rpm-size MAX_DELTA_RPM_SIZE
    max size of an rpm that to run deltarpm against (in bytes)

--workers WORKERS
    number of workers to spawn to read rpms

--compress-type
    specify which compression method to use: compat (default), xz (may not be available), gz, bz2.

EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e. /path/to/rpms/comps.xml).

createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms

FILES
repodata/filelists.xml.gz
repodata/other.xml.gz
repodata/primary.xml.gz
repodata/repomd.xml

SEE ALSO
yum (8) yum.conf (5)

AUTHORS
See the Authors file

BUGS
Any bugs which are found should be emailed to the mailing list: rpm-metadata@lists.baseurl.org or reported in trac at: http://createrepo.baseurl.org