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| author | Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com> | 2019-12-21 18:00:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13@gmail.com> | 2020-01-03 16:07:30 +0300 |
| commit | 437451f3bea5430c0a6f678b2a65ebbbbcb12de0 (patch) | |
| tree | 00d7b79302e6f73222e0d290a47d65a651bb8562 /doc | |
| parent | 6ba907f0af5ef43840b00b662e03c725a02b30ba (diff) | |
createrepo_c: add --recycle-pkglist option
This option is useful e.g. for very large repositories in copr [1] where
we need to update the repodata after each package build or package
removal. Re-generating everything from scratch with --update is simply
too expensive (actually even the directory traversal is) so the only
only viable option would be to maintain complete list of packages
manually, and use '--pkglist --no-stat'.
With '--recycle-pkglist' we can avoid the additional work with separate
pkglists. Adding new builds can be done just like
$ createrepo_c --no-stat --update --recycle-pkglist --pkglist <sth>
and removing something can be done with
$ createrepo_c --no-stat --update --recycle-pkglist --exclude <sth>
[1] https://pagure.io/copr/copr/pull-request/1150
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/createrepo_c.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/createrepo_c.8 b/doc/createrepo_c.8 index bf4927a..c6208ad 100644 --- a/doc/createrepo_c.8 +++ b/doc/createrepo_c.8 @@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ Specify a text file which contains the complete list of files to include in the .SS \-n \-\-includepkg PACKAGE .sp Specify pkgs to include on the command line. Takes urls as well as local paths. +.SS \-\-recycle\-pkglist +.sp +Useful only with \fB\-\-update\fR. Read the list of packages from old metadata, +and reuse it instead of (perhaps expensive) directory traversal. This doesn't +collide with explicitly selected packages by \fB\-\-pkglist\fR or +\fB\-\-includepkg\fR, such packages are appended to the recycled list. +This option is useful for I/O optimal repo modifications (package removal by +\fB\-\-exclude\fR, and additions with \fB\-\-pkglist\fR). .SS \-o \-\-outputdir URL .sp Optional output directory. |