createrepo

About

createrepo_c build for Ubuntu 22.04.

createrepo_c is the C implementation of createrepo (the traditional one being a Python 2 application which hasn't been maintained for years), a program that creates a repomd (xml-based rpm metadata) repository from a set of rpms.

This opens the door for maintaining an RPM repository from an Ubuntu 22.04 workstation. This wasn't easily doable ... until now.

Build dependencies

# install our deb repository
# https://deb.staker.ltd/docs/intro/install-repository/
sudo apt install cmake libzck-dev libmodulemd-dev libc6-dev libglib2.0-dev libpcre3-dev libffi-dev librpm-dev python3-dev

These build dependencies are not available in Ubuntu 22.04 repositories, therefore these packages are provided via our own deb repository:

• libzck-dev
• libmodulemd-dev

The recipes for building those packages are available here:

• zck
• modulemd

Build

bundle exec rake build:all

The *_c binaries have symlinks using their names without the _c suffix. For example, there's a createrepo symlink to createrepo_c.

Publish

bundle exec rake publish:all