Re: FEAT: Configure yum .repo file based on installation source

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:06 +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Long story short:
> 1) How do we deal with NFS installs. Configure automount or simply ignore them.
>    There's no data what is the most used install method at present.

Probably punting is reasonable at least at first.

> 2) How do we make the new repo preferred. What values need there be in the .repo
> file so yum picks it up before any others (and even doesn't download metadata
> for upstream repos).

It won't avoid needing to download the metadata, but setting the cost in
the repo will make it preferred for package downloads.  Not downloading
the metadata gets a lot trickier, especially once you take into account
the fact that the tree you installed from is regularly only a subset of
the full repo.

And note that for media-based installs, we already copy over the repo
file from the top of the CD like this

Jeremy