[tools] Remove old metadata dir

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Jan 11 03:15:36 CET 2007


Bill Robinson wrote:
> I'm running 0.8.4 of mrepo - i'm getting a message:
> 
> Could not remove old metadata dir: .olddata
> Error was [Errno 39] Directory not empty: 
> '/var/www/mrepo/fc6-i386/RPMS.extras/.olddata'
> Please clean up this directory manually.
> Could not remove old metadata dir: .olddata
> Error was [Errno 39] Directory not empty: 
> '/var/www/mrepo/fc6-i386/RPMS.updates/.olddata'
> Please clean up this directory manually.
> 
>  
>  
> why is this dir not getting removed? 

its not getting removed, since you have something else that is not a 
creterepo created file in your old repomd/ directory.

( or, thats the only case when I've not seen it get removed )

did you run repoview or something inside there ?

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