[Rpm-metadata] Exposing split media

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 08:45 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 08:26 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I was assuming it would only be on disc1, - I don't want to parse each
> > > disc in the set for the data, if you if you specify base in the location
> > > for the included xml to point at disc one then you could have just the
> > > repomd.xml on each disc should you want.
> > 
> > I wouldn't recommend parsing each disk. I'm saying each disk has ALL of
> > the metadata
> > 
> > so you have exactly the same repodata dir on each disc. 
> 
> I'm not convinced you want the full repodata on each disc just because
> it makes you lose (extremely valuable) CD space

The scheme is flexible enough to support both :)

For those who want metadata on each - we'd generate
base=media:/cdrom/SETID which would imply current CD.

For anaconda it'll point at #1

Paul