Re: creating full catalog

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 03:48:59 EDT


On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:08:30PM -0400, Christopher Fagiani wrote:
>
> Is there a way to create the full catalog rdf.gz file that rpmfind needs?
> What I am trying to do is set up my own server with and RDF database of all
> the packages I have on that machine. I plan on connecting to this machine from
> other machines in my network and, using rpmfind, locate and download rpms. I
> can get rpm2html to generate the rdfs for all the RPMS, but it doesnt make the
> fullCatalog.rdf.gz file. Any tips?
>
> Also, if I try running rpmfind to update packages, it echos the update command
> to the display, but it never runs it. Any ideas?

  First grab the CVS version (see the download link on the web page).
Second the compressed version is made differently now, it is compressed
outside of the rpm2html program IIRC.
third, make sure you run rpmfind as root to be able to install packages.

Daniel

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