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.

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

       -x --excludes <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.

       --basedir
              Basedir for path to directories in the repodata, default is the current working directory.

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

       --update-md-path
              Use the existing repodata for --update, from this path.

       -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. NOTE: This command will not notice when
              packages have been removed from repo. Use --update to handle that.

       --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.

       --version
              Output version.

       -h --help
              Show help menu.

       -d --database
              Generate sqlite databases for use with yum. This is now the default.

       --no-database
              Do not generate sqlite databases in the repository.

       -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 (default)

       --simple-md-filenames
              Do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename.

       --retain-old-md
              Keep  around  the  latest  (by  timestamp)  N  copies  of  the old repodata (so clients with older
              repomd.xml files can still access it). Default is 0.

       --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.

       --repo Specify keyword/tags about the repository itself. 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

       --read-pkgs-list READ_PKGS_LIST
              output the paths to the pkgs actually read useful with --update

       --max-delta-rpm-size MAX_DELTA_RPM_SIZE
              max size of an rpm that to run deltarpm against (in bytes)

       --workers WORKERS
              number of workers to spawn to read rpms

       --compress-type
              specify which compression method to use: compat (default), xz (may not be available), gz, bz2.

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

SEE ALSO

       yum (8) yum.conf (5)

AUTHORS

       See the Authors file

BUGS

       Any bugs which are found should  be  emailed  to  the  mailing  list:  rpm-metadata@lists.baseurl.org  or
       reported in trac at: http://createrepo.baseurl.org