how to make a local repository after a yum update?

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 09:08 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 05:10:09PM +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 September 2004 11:18, Colin Charles wrote:
> > > You now run "createrepo <dir_name>" rather than "yum-arch <dir_name>"
> > 
> > Is there any way to generate such repository with createrepo, that older yum 
> > versions (that require headers directory with separate header files)  would 
> > work?
> 
> I did not play with that yet (I was away for about a week, I am
> catching up with the program and it shows :-) but it looks to me
> that both types of an information do not collide.  So you would
> need to run both createrepo and yum-arch on the same directory
> and that would make it available to both types of clients.
> 
> Maybe createrepo has an option to generate "old style" headers too?
> It would be really nice if it did.

no createrepo cannot create yum-headers, and I have no plans to add that
to it. I don't enjoy adding legacy cruft to newer programs.

-sv