def create_archive(self, scm_object, **kwargs):
    """Create an OBS cpio archive of repodir in destination directory.
        """
    basename = kwargs['basename']
    dstname = kwargs['dstname']
    version = kwargs['version']
    args = kwargs['cli']
    commit = scm_object.get_current_commit()
    package_metadata = args.package_meta

    (workdir, topdir) = os.path.split(scm_object.arch_dir)
    extension = 'obscpio'

    cwd = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(workdir)

    archivefilename = os.path.join(args.outdir, dstname + '.' + extension)
    archivefile = open(archivefilename, "w")

    # detect reproducible support
    params = ['cpio', '--create', '--format=newc', '--owner', '0:0']
    chkcmd = "cpio --create --format=newc --reproducible "
    chkcmd += "</dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1"
    if os.system(chkcmd) == 0:
        params.append('--reproducible')

    proc = subprocess.Popen(
        params,
        shell=False,
        stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
        stdout=archivefile,
        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT
    )

    # transform glob patterns to regular expressions
    includes = ''
    excludes = r'$.'
    topdir_re = '(' + topdir + '/)('
    if args.include:
        incl_arr = [fnmatch.translate(x + '*') for x in args.include]
        match_list = r'|'.join(incl_arr)
        includes = topdir_re + match_list + ')'
    if args.exclude:
        excl_arr = [fnmatch.translate(x) for x in args.exclude]
        excludes = topdir_re + r'|'.join(excl_arr) + ')'

    # add topdir without filtering for now
    cpiolist = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(topdir, topdown=False):
        # excludes
        dirs[:] = [os.path.join(root, d) for d in dirs]
        dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if not re.match(excludes, d)]
        dirs[:] = [d for d in dirs if re.match(includes, d)]

        # exclude/include files
        files = [os.path.join(root, f) for f in files]
        files = [f for f in files if not re.match(excludes, f)]
        files = [f for f in files if re.match(includes, f)]

        for name in dirs:
            if not METADATA_PATTERN.match(name) or package_metadata:
                cpiolist.append(name)

        for name in files:
            if not METADATA_PATTERN.match(name) or package_metadata:
                cpiolist.append(name)

    tstamp = self.helpers.get_timestamp(scm_object, args, topdir)
    for name in sorted(cpiolist):
        try:
            os.utime(name, (tstamp, tstamp))
        except OSError:
            pass
        # bytes() break in python2 with a TypeError as it expects only 1
        # arg
        try:
            proc.stdin.write(name.encode('UTF-8', 'surrogateescape'))
        except (TypeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
            proc.stdin.write(name)

        proc.stdin.write(b"\n")
    proc.stdin.close()
    ret_code = proc.wait()
    if ret_code != 0:
        raise SystemExit("Creating the cpio archive failed!")
    archivefile.close()

    # write meta data
    infofile = os.path.join(args.outdir, basename + '.obsinfo')
    logging.debug("Writing to obsinfo file '%s'", infofile)
    metafile = open(infofile, "w")
    metafile.write("name: " + basename + "\n")
    metafile.write("version: " + version + "\n")
    metafile.write("mtime: " + str(tstamp) + "\n")

    if commit:
        metafile.write("commit: " + commit + "\n")

    metafile.close()

    self.archivefile = archivefile.name
    self.metafile = metafile.name
    os.chdir(cwd)