[Yum] What's repomd.xml?

[James Antill]

dE <de.techno at gmail.com> writes:

> From what it looks like, it provides the location of various package
> indexes in the mirror/repository

 Yeh, it can contain tags/etc. (see: yum repoinfo) but that's basically
it. It's the metadata about the repo.

> , however the man page says --
>
> "a list of mirrors"
>
> But I dont see a link to any set of server/mirrors.

 What part of what man pages talks about repomd.xml? The only bit I
can see is the text for the metalink option, which is a list of
mirrors and the checksum of the repomd.xml

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James Antill -- james at and.org