Bug 581632

Summary:	createrepo -C fails to notice remove-only changes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Component:	createrepo	Assignee:	Luke Macken <lmacken>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	james.antill, lmacken, pfrields
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Fixed In Version:	createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Ville Skyttä 2010-04-12 20:24:26 UTC

When a package is removed from a repository and there are no other changes to it and createrepo is run with -C on it, createrepo fails to notice the removal and does nothing.

I suppose dir timestamp tracking is needed to fix this.  Haven't thought about it much at all but on first thought this might not be entirely trivial as write operations to the repodata (and .repodata, see also bug 581628) dirs should not trigger a re-run.

If not fixable, the limitation should be documented.

Comment 1 seth vidal 2010-04-12 20:29:22 UTC

createrepo --update should pick up removed pkgs.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 11:19:14 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 seth vidal 2011-07-28 21:22:50 UTC

Agreed it should be documented and now has been upstream.

thanks

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-07-29 20:07:07 UTC

createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-08-02 02:06:31 UTC

createrepo-0.9.9-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.