[Yum-devel] src.rpm strangeness

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:

>> Aaaaargh... Too obvious, obviously.
>>
>> It's a problem in the way Fedora's update-repositories are created, the
>> SRPMS directory isn't included at all there - check the repodata from your
>> favorite Fedora mirror, this is the one I use:
>> http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/
>>
>> Need to bug RH about this then, sorry about the noise :)
>>
>
> no, I'd say we need to change the repo structure - but differently
>
> I've argued for each repo from fedora actually being 3 repos
>
> [updates]
> enabled=1
>
> [updates-src]
> enabled=0
>
> [updates-debug]
> enabled=0
>
> for 95% of the users they'll never have to do anything else.

Oh, I agree, having the debug and src packages included in the main 
repodata only slows things down and most users will never need them.
Still need to bug RH about it :)

 	- Panu -