createrepo -V in RHEL6 does not return its version number

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Createrepo-0.9.8-5.el6 does not display it's version number with the documented -V option:

# createrepo -V
Usage: genpkgmetadata.py [options]
genpkgmetadata.py: error: no such option: -V 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • createrepo-0.9.8-5.el6

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