Guys, How do I fix the yum-createrepo PKGBUILD so that yum-createrepo looks for the module 'rpm-org' instead of looking for the outdated 'rpm' module? In the PKGBUILD, the depends currently is: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm' 'yum') However, 'rpm-org' now provides 'rpm' so the depends line needs to be: depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm-org' 'yum') The problem is that when you build yum-createrepo with 'rpm-org' it fails with the following error: [12:19 archangel:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --update -d openSUSE_11.3/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 28, in <module> import createrepo File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 22, in <module> import yumbased File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/yumbased.py", line 19, in <module> import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm So it looks to me like it tries to 'import rpm' and fails because 'package rpm' isn't installed, instead the new package 'rpm-org' is installed and provides rpm: 12:28 archangel:~/arch/pkg/bld/yum-createrepo> rpm --version RPM version 4.8.0 So what do I need to fix (by patch, symlink somewhere in python, or otherwise) to cure this problem? Currently I'm making an outline for what it takes to install createrepo and repoview on Arch for managing rpm repositories. There are quite a number of steps required to do this. For those interested, here is the sequence so far: Install beecrypt http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16387 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U beecrypt-4.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Installl rpm-org http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30317 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U rpm-org-4.8.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-metadata-parser http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22978 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows: # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys@gmail.com> pkgname=yum-metadata-parser pkgver=1.1.4 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="C-based metadata parser to quickly parse xml metadata into sqlite databases." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://yum.baseurl.org/" groups=('lib') depends=('python' 'glib2') source=(http://yum.baseurl.org/download/yum-metadata-parser/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz) md5sums=('05289971e5cfde532631f2a99f6c58c7') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} python ./setup.py build || return 1 python ./setup.py install --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr || return 1 } makepkg -s sudo pacman -U yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install python-iniparse http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22977 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U python-iniparse-0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22976 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s Targets (2): python-pycurl-7.19.0-4 urlgrabber-3.9.1-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-3.2.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install yum-createrepo http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22951 (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD) (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) fix PKGBUILD as follows (In work - not finished) : # Maintainer: Chris Tusa <linisys@gmail.com> pkgname=yum-createrepo pkgver=0.9.8 pkgrel=3 pkgdesc="A tool to create yum repositories from ArchLinux systems." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('GPL') url="http://createrepo.baseurl.org" groups=('system') depends=('python' 'python-lxml' 'rpm-org' 'yum') source=(http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-${pkgver}.tar.gz createrepo0.patch createrepo1.patch) md5sums=('e37418bebb559e7420532574c1bdb18c' 'b074d7ccf1327346570ce14592470b05' 'b63a92689cfb7d4aea1cd0c7a0f55c56') build() { cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} # Apply Makefile patches to rename files during install cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/docs patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo0.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver}/bin patch -p1 < ${srcdir}/createrepo1.patch cd ${srcdir}/createrepo-${pkgver} make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install || return 1 } makepkg -s Targets (1): python-lxml-2.2.8-1 <snip> sudo pacman -U yum-createrepo-0.9.8-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz NOTE: yum-createrepo fails (rpm/rpm-org issue) with: [12:19 archangel:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --update -d openSUSE_11.3/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 28, in <module> import createrepo File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 22, in <module> import yumbased File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/yumbased.py", line 19, in <module> import rpm ImportError: No module named rpm Install kid http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2831 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U kid-0.9.6-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Install repoview (to gen html pages for rpms) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35377 (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory) makepkg -s sudo pacman -U repoview-0.6.5-1-any.pkg.tar.xz -- David C. 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