mash_directive - create a YUM repository from RPM packages using mash

New in version 0.4.

Take a directory containing RPM packages and run mash command on it, which creates YUM repository metadata.

This internally calls createrepo (which can be used separately through the createrepo directive), and then mash to finish the process. Mash will handle creating delta RPMs (if requested) and it will handle creating multilib repository metadata (which is currently supported just for x86_64 architecture).

Note

Beware, when creating multilib repositories, the non-multilib packages (i386 packages which shoudn’t be part of the x86_64 repository) are deleted from the directory.

Parameters

parameter	required	description	type	default	choices
arch	yes	list of architectures for which to create YUM metadata	list of str
dodelta	no	whether to create delta RPMs during the mash process	bool	False	True False
outdir	no	absolute or relative path to an output directory, where repository should be created. If not specified, then rpmdir is used as an output directory. outdir will be created automatically if not present.	str	None
rpmdir	yes	absolute or relative path to the directory containing RPM files (the task directory is considered the current working directory)	str

Return Values

(string) path to the directory where the repository has been created

Exceptions

• TaskotronDirectiveError: if createrepo returns a non-zero exit code

Examples

First, download all required RPMs, then create a YUM repository in that directory:

- name: download koji tag
  koji:
      action: download_tag
      koji_tag: ${koji_tag}
      arch: ${arch}
      target_dir: "${workdir}/downloaded_tag/"

- name: mash downloaded rpms
  mash:
      rpmdir: "${workdir}/downloaded_tag/"
      dodelta: False
      arch: ${arch}