[Yum] RFC: Linking of Repositories

Dominique Leuenberger Dominique.Leuenberger at TMF-Group.com
Mon Nov 13 15:19:33 UTC 2006


 

>>> Reply on 13-11-2006 17:12:44 <<<> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:58
+0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> 
> There's no irc channel, no, but I'm not sure there's much to meet
> about.
> The feature you're asking for doesn't make any sense to me. We're
> talking about adding a significant amount changes to the backend to
tie
> repositories together in order to facilitate just adding a .repo
file
> in /etc/yum.repos.d/
> 
> That seems handling the problem the wrong way, imo.
> 

Hmm, as I said, it's not only for this particular project that I ask,
I'm more here as a dellegate.
The change would be to extend the .repo format to support something
like
 
[channelName]
name=A sample repository
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://..../BinaryRepo/OS/Version
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=.....
enabled=1
dep-baseurl=http://..../DataRepo/
dep-gpgcheck=1
dep-gpgkey=......
(optionally multiple dependencies, but that is probably nothing that
should be needed)
 
So, the new part would be dep-* which would instruct to link in at
least on more repo.
 
What other solution can you see? Of course, the user can add 2 repos,
but that's a thing more or less impossible to instruct all users.
 
The important part would be to have the SPEC for this .repo file set to
a new version. Of course at the beginning not all binaries will
interpret them (but they are hopefully kinda grateful on unknown
parameters)
 
so: you think there's really nothing that can be discussed about such a
feature request anymore?
 
Dominique
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