Use createrepo on host A, deploy on host B?

[Hikaru Amano]

On 3/12/07, Patrick <fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to make some rpms available via a yum repo but the Linux
> box that hosts my domain does not have createrepo. Does anyone know if
> it is possible to setup the directory structure on host A, add the RPMs,
> run the appropriate createrepo command, stick everything in a tarball,
> copy it to host B and unpack it. Will that result in a working yum repo?
>

if you maintain the hierarchy it should be able to,

IIRC, the package locations are stored in relative path to the
repodata directory ..

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