Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 2 18:02:53 UTC 2009



On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, James Cassell wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:47:17 -0500, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> So, create a meta-repo that just says "I'm the combination of these several 
> repos over here"?  Of course, it'd require modification of all the programs 
> that know how to talk to repos...
>

it wouldn't require any code changes at all. createrepo/mergerepos can do 
this now and yum interacts with them fine - EXCEPT it gets into mirroring 
issues. :-/

-sv




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