---
name: "genbasedir"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "apt-rpm-repository"
version: "0.5.15lorg3.2-5"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/genbasedir"
---

# genbasedir(1)

generates APT RPM repository control files

## NAME

genbasedir - generates APT RPM repository control files

## SYNOPSIS

**genbaselist** \[*OPTION*...\] *TOPDIR* \[*COMPONENT*...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**genbasedir** analyzes the RPM packages in a directory tree and builds information files so that that directory tree can be used as an APT repository.  See the examples and references below for how to do that in detail.

## OPTIONS

- **-s**, **--sign**

  Generate and sign hashfile

- **--default-key=***ID*

  Use ID as gnupg secret key

- **--hashonly**

  Do hash stuff only

- **--listonly**

  Generate pkglists/srclists and quit

- **--partial**

  Update just some of the already existent components

- **--oldhashfile**

  Enable generation of old hashfile

- **--bz2only**

  Generate only compressed lists

- **--progress**

  Show progress bars for **genpkglist**/**gensrclist**

- **--updateinfo=***file*

  Update information file

- **--flat**

  Use flat repository, where SRPMS and RPMS are in *TOPDIR* (SRPMS are usually in *TOPDIR/..*)

- **--bloat**

  Do not strip the package file list, needed for some distributions that use non-automatically generated file dependencies

- **--meta=***name*

  Create a meta repository named *name*

- **--compresslevel=***n*

  Set bzip2 compress level (0-9)

- **--cachedir=***dir*

  Use a custom md5sum cache directory for package list generation (useful for non-root users)

- **--help**, **-h**

  Display help

## EXAMPLES

```
[niemeyer@ibook /pub]% find /pub
/pub
/pub/conectiva
/pub/conectiva/RPMS.general
/pub/conectiva/RPMS.general/dummy-1.0-1cl.noarch.rpm
[niemeyer@ibook /pub]% genbasedir /pub/conectiva
Creating base directory... done
Components: general
Processing pkglists... general [done]
Processing srclists... [done]
Creating component releases... general [done]
Creating global release file... [done]
Appending MD5Sum... general [done]
[niemeyer@ibook /pub]% find /pub
/pub
/pub/conectiva
/pub/conectiva/base
/pub/conectiva/base/pkglist.general
/pub/conectiva/base/pkglist.general.bz2
/pub/conectiva/base/release.general
/pub/conectiva/base/release
/pub/conectiva/RPMS.general
/pub/conectiva/RPMS.general/dummy-1.0-1cl.noarch.rpm
```

## NOTES

Here is a hint how the directory names, component names, URLs, and *sources.list* entries fit together:  Say the *sources.list* line is:

-

  rpm http://hostname/dir1 dir2/dir3 component

This would require that the files *http://hostname/dir1/dir2/dir3/base/release.component* and *http://hostname/dir1/dir2/dir3/base/pkglist.component.bz2* be accessible through the web server.

## SEE ALSO

**genpkgdir**(1), [**gensrclist**(1)](/gensrclist/1.md), *http://apt-rpm.org/reposetup-native.shtml*

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Peter Eisentraut for the Debian project.