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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
