Hi all,

I recently came across a situation which I never noticed before.

The requirement is simple, just create a the repo using createrepo command.
It is actually working fine but taking huge amount of time. Upon investigating I found out that there are multiple recursive directories in which i am running the createrepo command and therefore, while creating the repo, it is going into each directory, picking all the packages available from there also and thus taking high amount of time to complete the process.

Meaning:
Directory structure:
/packages/RHEL7/*.rpm - 40K packages
/packages/RHEL7/cachedir1/*.rpm - 40K packages
/packages/RHEL7/cachedir2/*.rpm - 40K packages

I am running createrepo command in /packages/RHEL7/ directory and it is going into recursive mode and that is the problem.

My only requirement is to create the repo of the RPMs available into the parent directory only, not the packages available in the inner directories.

Is there any solution to this ?

Thanks in advance.

Include "-x 'cachedir*/*'" (without the outer quotes) in the command line. Note that the wildcards must be quoted so that createrepo and not the shell will do the expansion.

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Have you looked in Red Hat's knowledgebase (you can access it if you're PAYING for RHEL...are you???), where they have such things documented?? Because you've asked about patching/satellite and such things FIVE YEARS ago: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ro-4175455486/

...and had more than 2 1/2 years of professional Linux administrator experience four years ago: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ux-4175522551/

rknichols gave good advice. Did you try any of the solutions offered in the RHEL knowlegebase also, or in the documentation??

Hi rknichols,

It worked. Thanks a lot.
Appriciate it.

Thanks,
RC