[Yum] Using yum for repo that was created with createrepo

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

If mrepo is used, there is an option to merge one or more repositories 
in one big repository.

James Antill wrote:
> Maria Alandes Pradillo <Maria.Alandes.Pradillo at cern.ch> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>>> Ok, I see. But then, how should the repo file look like if you create a repo like this?
>>> createrepo --split -o dir1 dir2
>>>
>>>  As the documentation for --split says, it is used for "split
>>> media". Ie. where you have more data than will fit on a single CD/DVD,
>>> at which point anaconda has some magic which makes this work.
>>>  If you are just accessing this from the network you'll want to create
>>> a single repo. ... if you are doing both, I think you want to run it
>>> twice (probably via. some other tool for the media creation bit --
>>> maybe someone who does CD install disks can answer?)
>> Thanks for your answer, James. I understand now. But then, what would be the repo file I should use if I create a repository in this way?
>>
>> createrepo -i list1 -o dir1 main_dir
>> createrepo -i list2 -o dir2 main_dir
>>
>> The thing is that I'm wondering whether it makes sense to do this in yum so that main_dir contains all the packages of my release but in dir1 and dir2 I have different views of the repository which actually contain some of the packages of main_dir (as specified in list1 and list2). Does this make sense? How should I define my repo file? If I do this:
> 
>  I think you'd need to have two repos, like:
> 
> [repo1]
> name=my repo list1
> baseurl=http://whatever/dir1
> 
> [repo2]
> name=my repo list2
> baseurl=http://whatever/dir2
> 
> ...and if you need to have it on the FS in that way I think you need
> to use: --baseurl http://whatever/main_dir
> 

Ljubomir Ljubojevic