Thanks drysdalk for the tips. That is indeed sound reasoning. I did find however, that the repomanage from the yum-utils RPM works wonders. This did the trick as far as I can tell. I'm still evaluating the results.
But my new repo may still be two large, though it is now down to 38000+ packages vice 42000+. I think I will try --keep=5 as I originally intended.
Hey,
I've a problem installing a package. rpm -ivh brings the errors:
libjvm.so is needed by
libverify.so is needed by
But I have installed the Java SDK like requested and the files are on the disk. But I have no idea how to find out, why rpm cann't find them.
I have also... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to install an rpm file,but I only have '.src.rpm' version of it. I want to convert it to a binary rpm.
so I tried this
rpm --rebuild somethin.src.rpm
But I am gettin '--rebuild:Invalid option' as output
Is there another way to rebuild source rpm.?
Thanks in... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have got few RPM's from rpmfind.net ( mainly gcc ).
But it seems to be src files instead of the image.
so I think we have to build the src files according to target machine using rpmbuild.
Can any one help me with
1) Various options of rpm build that have to be taken care
2)... (3 Replies)
It's the end of the day and I just can't get my head around this. I'm trying to extract just the name of the RPM from the path to a .rpm file. So from:
/home/me/rpm/RPMS/i386/nagios-our-plugins-1.2-6.i386.rpmI need to extract 'nagios-our-plugins'.
I can't get the awk syntax right:
awk '{... (5 Replies)
How to make RPM not write to RPM database if RPM fails to deploy?
IE I create an rpm spec file that contains the following
if
then
exit 1
fi
My rpm will fail at deployment, but if I do rpm -qa , I can see the rpm in the rpm db (3 Replies)
We have about 5 different SVN repositories running on SVN 1.6.11 on top of CentOS Linux 6.3. I was asked to migrate our SVN server to a new server last week. We have a cron job that does a Full backup of each repo once a week, and every other night we do an incremental backup via svnadmin dump... (1 Reply)
dears
i am trying to install the autoconf-2.63-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm but its shows the below error message .
P700_dev/svn/dependencies>rpm -i autoconf-2.63-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
m4 is needed by autoconf-2.63-1
P700_dev/svn/dependencies> (6 Replies)
I am using RHEL 6, but with no RHN subscription. I tried installing the EPEL repo, it is enabled under yum repolist but when I try a sample search such as yum search nginx , there's a string of errno 14 PYCURL error 6 .
When I tried yum list installed, it didn't work because it defaults to the... (0 Replies)
Hi Folks,
Just a quick question on this, I've tried to run this a couple of times now - first time it failed I increased the swap. I'm not sure that increasing the physical memory will do any good, but will try later today - has anyone seen this or anything similar?
SunOS fvssphsun01 5.11... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I'm looking for help with a script or ideally just a one line command perhaps that will check the results of yum repolist and look for a specific repo on a sever. We have some VM's using EUS repos from Red Hat and others that do not use EUS repos. The way we would see which repos are... (2 Replies)
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repo-rss
repo-rss(1)repo-rss(1)NAME
repo-rss - generates an RSS feed from one or more Yum repositories
SYNOPSIS
repo-rss [options] repoid1 [repoid2...]
DESCRIPTION
repo-rss is a program for generating RSS feeds for one or more Yum repositories.
GENERAL OPTIONS -h, --help
Help; display a help message and then quit.
-f <file>
Specify the file to which the RSS will be written. Default is repo-rss.xml.
-l <link>
Specify the URL to the RSS feed. Default is http://yum.baseurl.org/.
-t <title>
Specify the title for the RSS feed. Default is "RSS Repository - Recent Packages".
-d <description>
Specify the description of the RSS feed. Default is "Most recent packages in Repositories".
-r <days>
Specify the number of days to consider most recent. Default is 3.
--tempcache
Enable the use of a temporary directory for the yum cache. This is enabled by default for non-root users.
EXAMPLES
Generate an RSS for the updates-released repository and save it as updates-release.xml:
repo-rss -f updates-released.xml updates-released
FILES
As repo-rss uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default values like which reposi-
tories to use. Consult YUM documentation for details:
/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/var/cache/yum/
SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.
BUGS
There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should first consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq and if
unsuccessful in finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org. To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com
for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.
Seth Vidal 2005 repo-rss(1)