On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 16:14 +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 11:15 +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote: > >> better late than never, here it goes: > >> feat: Configure yum .repo file based on installation source. > > > > The first step of doing this is actually done in Fedora 9 where we set > > up the InstallMedia repo for DVD installs based on the file in the tree. > > > > Doing it more in general is difficult, though, as some of the install > > repos supported by anaconda aren't really supported by yum. eg, for > > NFS, you have to have it mounted because yum doesn't have any way of > > mounting an NFS repo (and probably shouldn't. although maybe it could) > > and NFSISO is definitely a bit of a non-starter. > > Hmm, do we have statistics on which installation methods are most > commonly used? I believe http network installs are the most common ones. > Based on such info we can decide how to proceed with the NFS case. Not anything close to current ones. > > > > Even for FTP/HTTP there are complications, though. If you point at a > > repo, what happens to the other repos which are configured as "stock". > > If you're pointing at your local mirror, then it's kind of crummy to be > > downloading metadata both from your local mirror and the upstream copy. > > But, eg, if it's just a Fedora mirror, then you still want to have the > > Everything tree configured. > > > I don't see why not just have both your local mirror and the upstream > one. Probably the local one contains some 3rd party packages or some > modified packages, etc. The problem I see here is with yum selecting a > repository to download from. How are repositories selected? Based on > name/url order or other preference? I've seen a plugin that selects the > fastest mirror. If we are adding local repos they should be act as a > primary download source. Plenty of local mirrors are just that ... mirrors. No changes from the upstream repo. And we can make it so that the repo we write out is preferred by setting a cost in the repo (like we already do with the DVD repo; basically, we make it "cheaper" to access the install-time repo and thus it gets preferred by yum for a given package) Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
