[Yum-devel] [PATCH] package basepath in yum

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:37 -0500, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> The yum metadata supports an xml:base attribute of the location tag for
> packages, which is saved as 'basepath' in the yum po after parsing.
> However, as far as I can tell, basepath isn't used by yum.  
> 
> The attached patch causes yum to use the basepath when resolving the url
> of the package.  More precisely, if basepath is set then the url used is
> basepath + '/' + relativepath.  This makes the most sense to me. 
> 
> Thoughts?

How does this interact with mirrorlists?

Paul