[Fedora-livecd-list] some lessons learned

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 14:37 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
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> What's a valid repo
> Fedora 7 appears to use sqlite-based metadata.  The files in the  
> repodata directory seem to be filelists.sqlite.bz2,  
> other.sqllite.bz2, primary.sqlite.bz2.  The respository errors I've  
> been running into were because versions of createrepo older than  
> roughly 0.4.7 don't generate that data and Fedora 7 doesn't (ever?)  
> fall back to the older metadata formats.  

Hrmm -- it should.  If it's not, that's a bug.  And in fact, I know that
I sometimes create repos with updates beyond what's in rawhide without
using createrepo -d.  What sort of error are you seeing otherwise?

Jeremy