Can createrepo_c generate shared pools? about createrepo_c

[dralley]

What is your ultimate goal? You could use Pulp for this.

[jketreno]

I hadn't come across Pulp -- I'll look into it. Thank you.

The goal is to provide package repositories for .deb and .rpm for multiple distros, and be able to snapshot the repositories with time-based names.

If the same package exists in multiple snapshots, we want to use a shared package pool for that distro so the packages aren't replicated on disk into each snapshot location. With reprepro, a shared pool is available. I am trying to recreate similar behavior with createrepo_c.

[dralley]

That is more or less what Pulp is for - versioned repositories, deduplicated storage on the backend, S3 and Azure support etc.

[kontura]

Is there a way to tell createrepo_c to index /pool and put full relative paths in the repodata filelists without the use of the symlink?

If you want repodata in latest given your packages, so:

/pool/l/libfoo-1.0.rpm
/pool/l/libfoo-1.1.rpm
/pool/m/mypackage-0.1.rpm
/latest/

I think you could also do something like this (running from /):

createrepo_c --outputdir latest/ --location-prefix="../pool" pool

Or perhaps like mentioned Pulp could provide a more complete solution.