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CREATEREPO_C(8) 						 CREATEREPO_C(8)

NAME
     createrepo_c - Create rpm-md format (xml-rpm-metadata) repository

SYNOPSIS
     createrepo_c [options] <directory>

DESCRIPTION
     Uses rpm packages from <directory> to create repodata.

     If  compiled  with  libmodulemd support modular metadata inside <directory>
     identified by the patterns below and all their compressed variants are  au-
     tomatically collected, merged and added to the repodata.

     The patterns are:

	* *.modulemd.yaml (recommended file name: N:S:V:C:A.modulemd.yaml)

	* *.modulemd-defaults.yaml   (recommended   file   name:  N.modulemd-de-
	  faults.yaml)

	* modules.yaml (recommended way of importing multiple documents at once)

OPTIONS
   -V --version
     Show program's version number and exit.

   -q --quiet
     Run quietly.

   -v --verbose
     Run verbosely.

   -x --excludes PACKAGE_NAME_GLOB
     Path patterns to exclude, can be specified multiple  times.   The	patterns
     are  matched  against  relative  paths to RPMs.  Note that the feature uses
     g_pattern_match()	function,  not	glob(),  for  semantic	differences  see
     https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Glob-style-pattern-match-
     ing.html

   --basedir BASEDIR
     Basedir for path to directories.

   -u --baseurl URL
     Optional base URL location for all files.

   -g --groupfile GROUPFILE
     Path to groupfile to include in metadata.

   -s --checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
     Choose  the  checksum type used in repomd.xml and for packages in the meta-
     data. The default is now sha256.

   -p --pretty
     Make sure all xml generated is formatted (default)

   -p --no-pretty
     Minify the generated xml content. On average this reduces	compressed  size
     by 2%.

   -d --database
     DEPRECATED: Generate sqlite databases for use with yum.

   --no-database
     Do not generate sqlite databases in the repository.

   --update
     If  metadata already exists in the outputdir and an rpm is unchanged (based
     on file size and mtime) since the metadata was generated, reuse the  exist-
     ing  metadata  rather than recalculating it. In the case of a large reposi-
     tory with only a few new or modified rpms this can significantly reduce I/O
     and processing time.

   --update-md-path
     Existing metadata from this path are loaded and reused in addition to those
     present in the outputdir (works only with --update). Can be specified  mul-
     tiple times.

   --skip-stat
     Skip  the	stat()	call  on a --update, assumes if the filename is the same
     then the file is still the same (only use this if you're fairly trusting or
     gullible).

   --split
     Run in split media mode. Rather than pass a single directory, take a set of
     directories corresponding to different volumes in a media set. Meta data is
     created in the first given directory

   -i --pkglist FILENAME
     Specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to include in
     the repository from the set found in the  directory.  File  format  is  one
     package per line, no wildcards or globs.

   -n --includepkg PACKAGE
     Specify  pkgs  to	include on the command line. Takes urls as well as local
     paths.

   --recycle-pkglist
     Useful only with --update.  Read the list of packages  from  old  metadata,
     and  reuse  it  instead  of  (perhaps expensive) directory traversal.  This
     doesn't collide with explicitly selected packages	by  --pkglist  or  --in-
     cludepkg,	such packages are appended to the recycled list.  This option is
     useful for I/O optimal repo modifications (package  removal  by  --exclude,
     and additions with --pkglist).

   -o --outputdir URL
     Optional output directory.

   -S --skip-symlinks
     Ignore symlinks of packages.

   --changelog-limit NUM
     Only import the last N changelog entries, from each rpm, into the metadata.

   --unique-md-filenames
     Include  the  file's  checksum in the metadata filename, helps HTTP caching
     (default).

   --simple-md-filenames
     Do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename.

   --retain-old-md NUM
     Specify NUM to 0 to remove all repodata present in old  repomd.xml  or  any
     other positive number to keep all old repodata. Use --compatibility flag to
     get  the  behavior of original createrepo: Keep around the latest (by time-
     stamp) NUM copies of the old repodata (works only for  primary,  filelists,
     other and their DB variants).

   --distro DISTRO
     Distro tag and optional cpeid: --distro'cpeid,textname'.

   --content CONTENT_TAGS
     Tags for the content in the repository.

   --repo REPO_TAGS
     Tags to describe the repository itself.

   --revision REVISION
     User-specified revision for this repository.

   --set-timestamp-to-revision
     Set  timestamp  fields in repomd.xml and last modification times of created
     repodata to a value given with --revision. This requires --revision to be a
     timestamp formatted in 'date +%s' format.

   --read-pkgs-list READ_PKGS_LIST
     Output the paths to the pkgs actually read useful with --update.

   --workers
     Number of workers to spawn to read rpms.

   --xz
     Use xz for repodata compression.

   --compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
     Which compression type to use. Supported compressions are:  bz2,  gz,  zck,
     zstd, xz.

   --general-compress-type COMPRESSION_TYPE
     Which compression type to use (even for primary, filelists and other xml).

   --zck
     Generate zchunk files as well as the standard repodata.

   --zck-dict-dir ZCK_DICT_DIR
     Directory containing compression dictionaries for use by zchunk

   --keep-all-metadata
     Keep  all	additional  metadata  (not  primary,  filelists and other xml or
     sqlite files, nor their compressed variants) from source repository  during
     update (default).

   --discard-additional-metadata
     Discard  all  additional  metadata (not primary, filelists and other xml or
     sqlite files, nor their compressed variants) from source repository  during
     update.

   --compatibility
     Enforce  maximal  compatibility  with  classical  createrepo (Changes --re-
     tain-old-md behavior, defaults to Gzip for compression).

   --retain-old-md-by-age AGE
     During --update, remove all files in repodata/ which  are	older  then  the
     specified	period	of  time.  (e.g. '2h', '30d', ...). Available units (m -
     minutes, h - hours, d - days)

   -c --cachedir CACHEDIR.
     Set path to cache dir

   --deltas
     Tells createrepo to generate deltarpms and the delta metadata.

   --oldpackagedirs PATH
     Paths to look for older pkgs to delta against. Can  be  specified	multiple
     times.

   --num-deltas INT
     The number of older versions to make deltas against. Defaults to 1.

   --max-delta-rpm-size MAX_DELTA_RPM_SIZE
     Max size of an rpm that to run deltarpm against (in bytes).

   --local-sqlite
     Gen  sqlite  DBs locally (into a directory for temporary files). Sometimes,
     sqlite has a trouble to gen DBs on a NFS mount, use  this	option	in  such
     cases.  This  option could lead to a higher memory consumption if TMPDIR is
     set to /tmp or not set at all, because then the /tmp is used and  /tmp  dir
     is often a ramdisk.

   --cut-dirs NUM
     Ignore NUM of directory components in location_href during repodata genera-
     tion

   --location-prefix PREFIX
     Append this prefix before location_href in output repodata

   --repomd-checksum CHECKSUM_TYPE
     Checksum type to be used in repomd.xml

   --error-exit-val
     Exit  with retval 2 if there were any errors during processing (option dep-
     recated, on by default)

   --ignore-lock
     Expert (risky) option: Ignore an existing .repodata/. (Remove the	existing
     .repodata/  and  create  an empty new one to serve as a lock for other cre-
     aterepo instances. For the repodata generation, a different  temporary  dir
     with  the	name  in  format .repodata.time.microseconds.pid/ will be used).
     NOTE: Use this option on your own risk! If two createrepos  run  simultane-
     ously,  then the state of the generated metadata is not guaranteed - it can
     be inconsistent and wrong.

				   2021-09-23			 CREATEREPO_C(8)

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