6.4 overlaps

[Bryan J Smith]

That's exactly what I thought.  I think another tool would be required.


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > Does createrepo need binary RPMS?  Or can it get meta from SRPMS?
>
> It needs the RPM's that you want to create the repo from :). If you
> want to create a repo of SRPM's, feed it a bunch of SRPM's. If you
> want a binary repo, feed it a bunch of binary RPM's.
>
> createrepo is not a magical mind-reader, it can't infer what
> dependencies might be in a binary RPM once it's built. Remember that
> RPM itself puts all sorts of non-declared dependencies in a binary RPM
> that gets built (needed DSO's, provided DSO's, Perl deps, etc).
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