repository creation

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:37 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:52:14PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:03:59PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > so why not make the repo like this:
> > > createrepo -x *.src.rpm -x *.debuginfo* -g Fedora/base/comps.xml .
> > > 
> > > and then make another srpm repository in the SRPMS dir all on its own.
> > > Ditto with debuginfo.
> > > 
> > > but then we should add disabled-by-default srpm and debuginfo repos to
> > > each .repo file in yum.repos.d
> > 
> > +1
> 
> -1
> 
> I would prefer this to be an option for yum.conf with data being written
> to separate files instead of using a separate repo location. Would allow
> reading e.g. debuginfo items if such an rpm is actually installed.
> 

But the only way you're going to know if the debuginfo items are there
is by reading through all of the debuginfo metadata.

so it's a net loss for users who for I'd be willing to wager >95% of the
time do not EVER use debuginfo rpms.

and for the 5% of the time they need them they can simply do:
 yum --enablerepo=base-debug install foo-debuginfo

you're cutting off a lot of packages.

Also - are you -1'ing the whole idea or just the idea as regards
debuginfo packages? We can save a lot of data by pruning out src.rpms.

-sv