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

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:30 -0500, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:04 -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:37 -0500, Dennis Gregorovic wrote:

> > > 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. 

> > How does this interact with mirrorlists?

> The patch has downloadPkgs in yum/__init__.py calling repo.get with
> url=basepath, which in turn causes the mirrorlists to not be used and
> instead directly fetches the url + relativepath.

OK.  I'm just trying to think this through.  I think in general that
should be ok.

> So, the end effect is that if xml:base is specified for a package, then
> that url is used instead of the baseurl/mirrorlists value of the repo
> itself.  This essentially provides the capability to do 'virtual'
> repositories as discussed a couple months back on the metadata list.

Yes I can see that.  Seth gets back next week, this seems ok to me, so
if someone else (Menno?) ack's I'll commit.

> Also, since anaconda doesn't use the yum cli path that triggers the
> changes in the patch, I don't think that this will conflict with the
> xml:base usage in anaconda for specifying CD location.  

I'm going to be merging CD support into yum so everyone can benefit, but
this should work ok.

Paul