[Yum] header.info location

[matt whiteley]

I apologize if this has already been covered, I looked in the archives 
and didn't see anything regarding it.

I am interested in why there is a difference in the location of the 
header.info file created by yum-arch and accessed by yum relative to the 
  directories.

I run 'yum-arch .' and then my dir looks like:
headers/foo.rpm.hdr
headers/foo2.rpm.hdr
headers/header.info
packages/foo.rpm
packages/foo2.rpm

/var/cache/yum/repository contains:
headers/foo.rpm.hdr
headers/foo2.rpm.hdr
packages/foo.rpm
packages/foo2.rpm
header.info

So the header.info file is in the root of the repository directory vs 
inside the header directory.  There may be a good reason for this and 
for our situation we have a work around, but I wanted to ask here.

We export the yum repository via nfs and automount it on the lab boxes. 
  We then put file:/nfs/mount in yum.conf and link /var/cache/yum to 
/nfs/mount also.  Then running 'yum -C update' works.  The lab boxes 
then don't have to have a local cache.  The only thing that needs to 
change is I symlink headers/header.info -> header.info on the yum 
repository so that the cache appears correct.

Yum is a great product and we thank you for it.

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matt whiteley <mattw at cat.pdx.edu>