createrepo fails with file name too long

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Issue

  • When I run createrepo –g *comps*xml/opt/linux/rhel/rh6.5_x86_64_2.3/LoadBalancer, I’m getting this error:
  File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 291, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 269, in main
    mdgen.doRepoMetadata()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 1073, in doRepoMetadata
    mdcontent = self._createRepoDataObject(self.conf.groupfile, 'group_gz')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 884, in _createRepoDataObject
    (csum, outfn) = checksum_and_rename(outfn, self.conf.sumtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/utils.py", line 170, in checksum_and_rename
    os.rename(fn_path, csum_path)
OSError: [Errno 36] File name too long

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • createrepo-0.9.9-18.el6.noarch

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