On Friday 23 January 2009, Johannes Kastl wrote: > Me again, > > Johannes Kastl schrieb: > > I have not tested it myself > > I could not resist and tested it myself. Pretty easy. > > Just put the RPMS into a folder in your ftp/http/whatever server, and run > createrepo FOLDERNAME > > After that you will notice a folder called repodata in your RPMS folder. > > Then add the RPMS folder in apt/yast/yum/..., and it works. Pretty nice. > > If you have large repos, where not too much new files get added, > createrepo has a switch to just update the metadata, not create it from > scratch.
Yes, works here as well. There is only one question left: rpm repositories apparently allow to contain one package with different versions. So, it would be possible to have VirtualBox 2.0.6 (the last stable release of the 2.0.x branch) together with the current 2.1.2 release in the same repository. Is it somehow possible to have sticky packages? For instance, if the user wants to stay on 2.0.6 but the same repository contains 2.1.2 as well. Next time when doing 'yum update', VirtualBox will updated to 2.1.2 if 2.0.6 was installed. Is it somehow possible to prevent this mechanism? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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