On 28/11/2007, Paul Johnson wrote: > I've used create repo in the past but only when I was hosting files > for one arch. > > Now I have a repository with directories > > SRPMS > i386 > x86_64 > > Going out of habit, I was thinking I should run createrepo 3 separate > times, one for the SRPM, one for i386, one for x86_64. > > But then I became concerned: when the x86_64 is doing its multilib > magic, how does it find the i386 packages it installs in parallel to > x86_64. It doesn't. In your case, it would only work if you enabled the i386 repo in the x86_64 machine's Yum configuration. > That made me think the createrepo should be aimed at the top level > directory above all three. But as I browse the mirrors of F8, I don't > see a "repodata" directory under the top level, making me think they > did not run createrepo at that level. > > So, what to do? In the Fedora repositories, the "multilib magic" is applied to the repositories _prior_ to running createrepo. The multilib magic determines a selection of i386 packages, which is copied into the x86_64 repository. Hence the x86_64 repodata cover these i386 packages.
