Use createrepo on host A, deploy on host B?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:21:35PM +0100, Patrick wrote:
> I would like to make some rpms available via a yum repo but the Linux
> box that hosts my domain does not have createrepo. Does anyone know if
> it is possible to setup the directory structure on host A, add the RPMs,
> run the appropriate createrepo command, stick everything in a tarball,
> copy it to host B and unpack it. Will that result in a working yum repo?

Yes, that's fine. After all, the repo metadata isn't used by the server at
all, but rather by the client.

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