[arch-general] Installing createrepo/repoview on Arch Linux

14 Sep 2010

      Here is a quick synopsis of what is required to install createrepo on Arch in 
case you need to provide an rpm repository for rpm based distros hosted on your 
Arch server:

AUR Package Summary (in order to build/install):

   beecrypt
   rpm  (THIS PKG IS ORPHANED, BUT STILL CURRENT FOR rpm-5.1.9)
   yum-metadata-parser (OUT OF DATE -- updated PKGBUILD below)
   python-iniparse
   yum  (the 'depends' line in the PKGBUILD must be fixed - see below)
   yum-createrepo  (OUT OF DATE -- updated PKGBUILD below)
   kid
   repoview

Detailed Build/Install Info:

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
   http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16857
   (THIS PKG IS ORPHANED, BUT STILL CURRENT FOR rpm-5.1.9)
   (download tarball, untar/ungzip, cd into directory)
   makepkg -s
   sudo pacman -U rpm-5.1.9-1-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   (OUT OF DATE -- here is the updated PKGBUILD)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)
   (the 'depends' line in the PKGBUILD must be fixed by changing rpm-org to rpm 
as follows:)

#depends=('python' 'intltool' 'urlgrabber' 'rpm-org' 'python-pysqlite' 
'yum-metadata-parser' 'python-iniparse')
depends=('python' 'intltool' 'urlgrabber' 'rpm' 'python-pysqlite' 
'yum-metadata-parser' 'python-iniparse')

   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' '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

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

Done, works fine, enjoy!

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