createrepo error I think
 

I am using RHEL5 and I did a createrepo -v --update /var/www/html/yum/base/5Server/x86_64/rhel-x86_64-server-5/getPackage/ and the output was

Scanning old repo data
Indexed 10031 base nodes
Killed

Now is that a error??? I didn't press Ctrl-C or anything like that, it just finished that way. I have a local yum repository and I use reposync to sync up my local repository with the Red Hat network. Everytime I pull down the updates from Red Hat I used createrepo with no options but wanted to try the --update to see how much time it would save. Anyone have any ideas why it is it was "Killed"

Createrepo --update (if memory serves) doesn't update the files in the repo, but the matadata describing the repo... you would do an --update when you change a file in the repo to update the metadata so that clients know to download the update. Anytime I've setup repo's I typically used rsync for the update of the actual data (typically i've done fedora, not rhel but the same thing should apply.)

I'm having the same problem on SuSE 11.2
 

It runs for hours, eventually ending with createrepo was killed message.

I'm using createrepo version 0.4.9 on OpenSuSE x64 version 11.2

I noticed a difference between update and recreate behaviors. If I delete all the old repo meta data, and attempt to recreate it, createrepo dies somewhere around the 5,000 rpm count mark. From then on, if I do update instead of recreate, it keeps getting further along, until it reaches a rpm file count of around 24,000 that it never gets passed. As an FYI - there are about 36,000 total rpms of various architectures in the repository, with up to 10 versions of some of them.

Have no clue how to "fix" this. I am attempting to clean out all earlier versions of RPMS's saving only the most recent in the hopes that reducing the number of RPMS will help createrepo succeed.

- John "S"