how do i create a 'repodata' folder for a local yum repository ?

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Monday 22 November 2004 14:55, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > If you mirror another repository and mirror all its packages and its
> > metadata, you don't have to do anything with createrepo...the
> > mirroring process if you do it correctly...keeps the metadata and the
> > package list in sync.
> 
> I guess it seems simplest to mirror the fedora-update repository locally.
> But what exactly do I need from such a site?
> Is there a script available which will collect the rpms
> and any metadata required?

You could look at a tool called Yam, I heard it was able to that :)

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