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createrepo(8) 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. (not used by any clients at this time)

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

-x --exclude <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.

--update
If metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged (based on file size and mtime) since the meta-
data 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).

-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.

--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.

-V --version
Output version.

-h --help
Show help menu.

-d --database
Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.

-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

--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.

--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

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