Createrepo Problem on Fedora15

[UmrinderPal]

Hi all

i have a problem regarding createrepo cmd on fedora15...
while creating yum repository .... i copied all the rpms from dvd (Fedora 13) to /var/ftp/pub/RPMS dir ....
when i ran the createrepo -v /var/ftp/pub/RPMS

it got stuck .... and did not responce except with this message
write 0:office......anything....... .rpm

i do not know what happened to it....
i have created yum repository so many times on other version on fedora and red hat what this happened to me first time....

plz help me out .....

[Irithori]

Does it run out of diskspace, are the permissions correct?
You can also try to strace the pid of createrepo to see, if it does something or not

[UmrinderPal]

There is no issue related to diskspace or primissions .... all is ok
i have enough space on disk and loged in as root ....

dont know what happed to it ....
i had uninstall createrepo package and installed it again ...
but have same problem ....

is this related to that ... i am tring to create repository on fedora 13 rmps wth createrepo package of fedora15?
maybe....

[mike-ocs]

You might try creating a Packages subdirectory within: /var/ftp/pub/RPMS ... /var/ftp/pub/RPMS/Packages and then placing all of the rpm files within the Packages subdirectory. You will still run createrepo -v /var/ftp/pub/RPMS

This is definitely a difference between RHEL5 and RHEL6, so I'm assuming that it's true with Fedora 15 as well. Did you notice that all of the rpm files were in a Packages subdirectory on the DVD?

On a side note, why don't you just copy the entire DVD to that directory? If you do, you won't need to re-create the repository:
rsync -av /media/Fedora\ 15\ x86_64\ DVD/* /var/ftp/pub/RPMS/

Hope this helps,

Mike

[brianwitt]

I have the same issue. I think it started when I upgraded the machine that is running createrepo from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15. It seems to only happen when I'm mirroring a new repository for the first time. I'm using mrepo to mirror the repositories. Once it works for the first time, it seems to work for each additional time. I think how I get it to work is to run it a bunch of times and it eventually works.

Thanks,
Brian