createrepo

createrepo

Package createrepo implements methods for creating and maintaing an RPM repo.

Installation

The recommended way to install createrepo

go get github.com/stianwa/createrepo

Examples

// Package main implements the CLI of createrepo - a program used for
// creating RPM repositories on a local file system.
package main

import (
	"createrepo/internal/createrepo"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"os"
)

var opt struct {
	Group   string
	Verbose bool
	Expunge int64
}

func init() {
	flag.String("", "", "Path to repo base")
	flag.StringVar(&opt.Group, "g", "", "Comps group `file`")
	flag.BoolVar(&opt.Verbose, "v", false, "Verbose output")
	flag.Int64Var(&opt.Expunge, "e", 172800, "Expunge dead meta data older than `n` seconds.")
	flag.Parse()
}

func main() {
	config := &createrepo.Config{WriteConfig: true, CompsFile: opt.Group, ExpungeOldMetadata: opt.Expunge}

	for _, arg := range flag.Args() {
		r, err := createrepo.NewRepo(arg, config)
		if err != nil {
			abortProgram("new repo: %v", err)
		}

		summary, err := r.Create()
		if err != nil {
			abortProgram("create repo: %v", err)
		}

		fmt.Println(summary)
	}

	return
}

func abortProgram(format string, a ...any) {
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, format + "\n", a...)
	os.Exit(-1)
}

State

The createrepo module is currently under development. Do not use for production.

License

GPLv3, see LICENSE.md