Bug 877301 – createrepo -C does nothing on empty repo

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Bug 877301 - createrepo -C does nothing on empty repo

Summary:	createrepo -C does nothing on empty repo

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	createrepo (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.4
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	packaging-team-maint
QA Contact:	Karel Srot
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Reported:	2012-11-16 03:12 EST by Marko Myllynen
Modified:	2013-05-30 03:44 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	createrepo-0.9.9-18.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Timestamp check didn't pass if the file didn't exist. Consequence: An empty repo. was incorrectly flagged as up to date. Fix: Treat missing file as a failure, and not a pass. Result: Repo. is created when --checkts used on empty repo.
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Last Closed:	2013-05-30 03:44:27 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2013:0879	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	createrepo bug fix update	2013-05-30 07:43:34 EDT

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Description Marko Myllynen 2012-11-16 03:12:10 EST

Description of problem:
There's one corner case issue remaining with -C:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ mkdir packages
$ createrepo -v -C .
repo is up to date
$ createrepo .

Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
$ rpm -V createrepo
$ rpm -q createrepo
createrepo-0.9.9-15.el6.noarch
$

Comment 2 RHEL Product and Program Management 2012-12-14 03:11:58 EST

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 James Antill 2013-04-16 16:19:16 EDT

commit f0020c470935cbb98ed4c53ef8ae24952e799a01
Author: Zdeněk Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 14 11:20:21 2012 +0100

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-30 03:44:27 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0879.html

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