[packagers] create-metadata.sh and broken metadata

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 May 2008, seth vidal wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> something in rpmforge is making bad metadata. Please see this bug for
>>> details:
>>> 
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444882
>> 
>> createrepo -n is making bad metadata :)
>> 
>> The repomd metadata definition excludes support for RPM < 4.2.1 so it is 
>> either generating metadata like this (so that apt works fine with repomd 
>> metadata) or not generate any repomd metadata.
>
> [kbsingh at surya ~]$ rpm -q createrepo --changelog | head -n8
> * Wed Aug 23 2006 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> - 0.4.6-1 - 4440+/dag
> - Updated to release 0.4.6.
>
> * Mon May 29 2006 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> - 0.4.4-3
> - Added noepoch an update2 patches.
>
>
> Could that patch have something to do with it ?

>From ChangeLog:

2006-06-09 14:49  skvidal

         * dumpMetadata.py, genpkgmetadata.py:
           include Panu's patch to support --noepoch for use with old
           versions of rpm

So yes, anything before that was patched.

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