[Yum] RPM directory of links

[Troy Dawson]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 16:53, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
>>Howdy Ho,
>>About 2 months ago there was a discussion of whether to let yum-arch work on a 
>>directory of links or not.  You asked people their opinion because you said it 
>>was a simple if/then statement in one section.
>>Well, reading through the thread it looks like no-one actually answered that 
>>question, and using the almost latest code, it looks like it was never 
>>implemented.
>>Can I send in a resounding Yes Yes Yes, please make it so that symbolic links 
>>work in a repository.
> 
> 
> ok so here is what I did.
> 
> I added a new flag to yum-arch (-l) which makes yum-arch use symlinks of
> rpms if it finds them. The reason I didn't make it the default is b/c I
> make use of it ignoring symlinks by default b/c otherwise I'll see a
> bunch of dupe pkg lists (has to do with the hierarchy of my installation
> tree)
> 
> anyway - this way you get what you wanted w/just a small shell script
> modification.
> 
> 
> yum-arch -l dir
> 
> that will do it.
> its been checked into cvs - the next daily and/or release will have it.
> 
> speaking of releases I'd like to plan on putting out 0.9.3 this weekend.
> I want to sift through a few more patches and get them put in first.
> 
> thanks
> -sv
> 
Thanks
We'll give it a try when the daily comes out.
For the time being, we just commented out the one 'if' line and it works fine. 
  I think your idea with the -l will be good.
Thanks Again,
Troy

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