yum -- Repodata in os directories?

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:18 PM, David Eisenstein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that Fedora
> Legacy maintains "repodata" in its directories so that users who have
> upgraded their yum program to version 2.2+ can still use yum for  
> updating
> their systems or installing software they hadn't previously installed?
>
> Problem is, there are no repodata subdirectories in any of the os
> directories off of download.fedoralegacy.org (e.g., /fedora/3/os/ 
> i386/,
> /fedora/3/os/SRPMS/).
>
> With our repository set up this way, will users who have switched  
> to using
> versions of yum >= version 2.2 still be able to download original  
> distro
> files?  That is, will a FC3 user using yum-2.2.2-0.fc3 who never  
> installed,
> say, epic, be able to successfully run
>
>     # yum install epic
>
> ??
> 	-David

Hi David, you're correct - createrepo should be run in the os  
directories as well as the updates.

-Jeff