Supporting EPEL Builds in Koji

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 13 21:46:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 17:35 -0400, Mike Bonnet wrote:

> I was thinking we would probably just call out to the tool the way we do
> for createrepo, but I'm certainly not against using an API.  I'm a
> little concerned about memory usage when doing the create/mergerepo
> in-process, since we know python and mod_python have garbage-collection
> issues, but that may be a "cross the bridge when we come to it" problem.
> Seth, is it feasible to provide an API to mergerepo that we could use
> directly?
> 

createrepo has an api. repomerge should be relatively easy to use the
same way since repomerge is really just a combination script using
createrepo and yum's interfaces.

when I have the script cleaned up more I'll make sure you can import it
usefully.

-sv





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