Primary Legacy distribution (was: Re: apt/yum configuration?)

[William Hooper]

seth vidal said:
>
>> Well, you're right, but in order to have all the Legacy packages
>> mirrored
>> for the various supported distributions, and without mirroring all the
>> other fedora.us packages, things won't be as easy as they could be.
>>
>> >From what I had understood initially, many people (including me)
>> expected a
>> clean and simple way to fetch the packages and merge them with (or
>> include
>> them alongside) the no-longer-updated official updates, and unless I'm
>> mistaken, it's unfortunately not currently the case.
>
> I'm confused again. Can't you just rsync:
>
> download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/*/i386/RPMS.legacy/
>
> ?
>
> Then wouldn't you get them all?
>
> Or do you mean for ftp-downloading?

I think the issue is that this requires another yum.conf entry.  So you
have one local repo for RH Errata up to EOL, then another for Fedora
Legacy Errata.  IIUC what Matthias is looking for was more of a "drop
Fedora Legacy Errata into the existing local RH Errata repo".

-- 
William Hooper