[arch-general] Something really wrong with yum-createrepo from AUR - doesn't work. [Solved - sort of]

[David C. Rankin]

On 03/13/2010 01:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> 	The yum-createrepo package seems not to be the same as the createrepo package
> that you normally see. Specifically executing the yum-createrepo script with the
> help option discloses:
> 
> [13:35 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --help
> Usage: genpkgmetadata.py [options]
> 
> Options:
>   --version             show program's version number and exit
>   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>   -q, --quiet           output nothing except for serious errors
>   -v, --verbose         output more debugging info.
> <snip>
> 
> Huh?? Usage: genpkgmetadata.py [options]
> 
> 	genpkgmetadata.py is part of createrepo, but the expected output is:
> 
> 13:38 nemesis:~> createrepo --help
> 
>     createrepo [options] directory-of-packages
> 
>     Options:
>      -u, --baseurl <url> = optional base url location for all files
>      -o, --outputdir <dir> = optional directory to output to
>      -x, --exclude = files globs to exclude, can be specified multiple times
>      -q, --quiet = run quietly
> 
> 	The AUR package doesn't seem to be looking for the correct input. You can't
> create or update a repository without specifying where the repository is??
> However, the packages do share many of the same options "-p pretty, -d create
> sqlite dbs, etc..", but regardless, running the yum-createrepo from AUR fails:
> 
> [13:41 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms] # createrepo --update -d factory_11.0/
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 249, in <module>
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 223, in main
>     mdgen.doPkgMetadata()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 367, in
> doPkgMetadata
>     self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 531, in
> writeMetadataDocs
>     self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1082, in
> xml_dump_primary_metadata
>     msg += misc.to_unicode(self._dump_format_items())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 967, in
> _dump_format_items
>     msg += self._dump_requires()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1022, in
> _dump_requires
>     mylist = self._requires_with_pre()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1278, in
> _requires_with_pre
>     pre = map(self._is_pre_req, lst)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1268, in _is_pre_req
>     rpm.RPMSENSE_SCRIPT_PRE |
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RPMSENSE_PREREQ'
> 
> Anybody have an idea what is going on? I think if the errors are corrected it
> will work, but I'm nut sure the PKGCONFIG is putting all the pieces together
> correctly. I guess I'll try just putting the package together from source and
> compare what is going on, but if anybody has any ideas, I would welcome the
> input and help.
> 
> 

Alright,

	The answer to the first question is AUR is pulling in the development version
of 'yum-createrepo' which is much different from the stable release of
createrepo. They are the same package, but miles apart.

The stable release is:

	http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-0.4.11.tar.gz

The development release used by AUR is:

	http://createrepo.baseurl.org/download/createrepo-0.9.8.tar.gz

Using the stable release, installed from source works, but gives deprecation
warnings. The following just calls "createrepo -d --update opensuse_11.0/" and
then call gpg to sign the repo. The warnings from create repo are the first 3
below. Yes, I know libgladeui is a corrupt package. How do I work around the
deprecations:

[14:12 nirvana:/home/backup/rpms] # ./data/updt-sign-repo.sh
        sqlite metadata tables found --> updating

/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py:24: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is
deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is
deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
/usr/share/createrepo/dumpMetadata.py:47: DeprecationWarning: use the name attribute
  fname = self.filename[:-3]
980/5301 * i586/libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.2-0.pm.1.1.i586.rpm                      mm
Error opening package - i586/libgladeui-1-7-3.4.3-24.1.i586.rpm
5301/5301 * src/cairomm-1.4.8-16.1.src.rpm
rpmpmmpm
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Update of metadata (sqlite) --> OK


        Signing the repository after update...

Other than the deprecation warnings, with the stable version of createrepo,
repoview and gpg, I can completely manage the 3 rpm repositories I maintain on
my Arch box -- that's cool...



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