createrepo Command Examples

Initializes an RPM repository in a directory, including all XML and SQLite files. More information: https://manned.org/createrepo.

• Initialize a basic repository in a directory:

createrepo {{path/to/directory}}

• Initialize a repository, exclude test RPMs and display verbose logs:

createrepo {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{[-x|--excludes]}} {{test_*.rpm}} {{path/to/directory}}

• Initialize a repository, using SHA1 as the checksum algorithm, and ignoring symbolic links:

createrepo {{[-S|--skip-symlinks]}} {{[-s|--checksum]}} {{sha1}} {{path/to/directory}}