seth vidal wrote: >>I make sense, but IMHO it a hack and not an ideal solution. especially >>since you write this program. if some made it in this was than this can >>be one of the good solution, but in this case ... > > > I don't think it's a hack - I think it's a reasonable use. but that's > just a perspective difference. > > > >>IMHO it would be good if yum can place the repository in a different >>directory by design (since most user even you use it in this way). and >>as I can see there is a header.info file which contains a reference to >>the rpm files itself. so it would be a useful extension to add a new >>optional parameter to >>yum-arch <rpm-dir> <repository-dir> >>in this case you can separate the to things, what's more in this case >>you can create funny thing:-) > > > How would that help? What if someone put a rpm-dir which is outside of > the relative dir - then they baseurl path would need to be redefined. that would be a funny thing;-) may be header.info should contains full url in this case... > Can you give me another example. I may not be understanding your > suggestion. so what I'd like to see: in the mirror host: <base>/mirror/redhat/8.0/ <base>/mirror/redhat/9/ <base>/mirror/redhat/updates/9/ <base>/mirror/redhat/updates/8.0/ <base>/mirror/freshrpms/redhat/8.0/ <base>/mirror/freshrpms/redhat/9/ ... <base>/yum-repository/redhat/8.0/ <base>/yum-repository/redhat/9/ <base>/yum-repository/redhat/updates/9/ <base>/yum-repository/redhat/updates/8.0/ <base>/yum-repository/freshrpms/redhat/8.0/ <base>/yum-repository/freshrpms/redhat/9/ .... may be just two and both contains base, updates and freshrpms too. <base>/yum-repository/redhat/8.0/ <base>/yum-repository/redhat/9/ in the conf file: -------------------------------- [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=file:///<base>/mirror/redhat/$releasever/ -------------------------------- and run yum-arch <base>/mirror/redhat/8.0/ <base>/yum-repository/redhat/8.0/ ... in this case if I decided to mirror another site (eg rh contrib net reborn) I just have to add on line to my mirror script and one line to my yum repository generator (and I don't have to create a huge link forest). >>another suggestion to add possibility to >>- install scr.rpms > > > src rpms will be need to be handled differently imo and I don't think it > makes sense to clutter up the yum binary-handling cli with commands for > a mechanism to install src.rpms. Additionally, src.rpm handling while on > my todo list is not a top priority. I don't think either that it's a top priority just a comment:-) >>- to use a proxy > > > it can now - read the man page for yum. ooops sorry, but prefer config file parameter :-) but it's realy not important:-) -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
