seth vidal wrote:
>Suggestion:
> If you're going to send patches with new features - make the patches
>for HEAD, not for 2.0.X - this feature, if it were to get in this form
>AT ALL would not get in to 2.0.X.
>
>
Sorry, i'll do it cause in HEAD i don't see 'po/' folder for example and
some files
disapear to.
try to do 'cvs update -dPA -r HEAD' in your yum cvs directory - you'll
see it too :)
>With regard to the actual patch:
>
> you just eject the cdrom w/o asking - that could have negative effects
>if a user was not expecting it. Why not just prompt the user and let
>them prepare the next media - that way you're not bound to cdrom/dvd. If
>someone is loading the units off of compact flash or floppy disk or zip
>drive, then the code would be more generic and more well-suited to them.
>
>
Heh, i make two variables ([u]mountcommand in yum.conf)- if you dislike
current model
just set it to empty line or /bin/false - and then yum just ask for new
disk and don't
try to eject/mount. Do you think what this behaviour must be default?
little blackmail:
Can i expect what this idea (removable support) appear in yum CVS ? :)
Also I have lots of patches to yum (and this bored i18n patch too!) :)
>Also - why not have yum-arch take multiple disks when you tell it to
>talk to removable media? Then you can have 1 repository for all N disks.
>So the header.info ends up looking like:
>0:name-1.1-1.i386=DISKLABEL/path/to/name-1.1-1.i386.rpm
>
>then have tag the repo as removable in yum.conf
>
>[redhat9fromcd]
>name = Red Hat Linux 9 from CD
>baseurl=removable:///mnt/cdrom/
>
>Then have it look at the disklabel - if it is not the one it needs then
>it asks for a new disk.
>
>If all the disklabels are the same then you have a problem, clearly, but
>then so does your vendor :-D
>
>
Yes, i like this idea but how can i get DISKLABEL from cd? :)
If you mean RH special files .diskid (my distro use this scheme too) then
it's not a good idea cause we can't just burn lots of RPMS but also need
to prepare this .diskid :(
How about this idea:
yum -Rredhat9(3) /mnt/cdrom
Then grab 3 cd and write to header.info something like this:
0:name-1.1-1.i386=NUMBER/path/to/name-1.1-1.i386.rpm
in yum.conf now must be
[redhat9fromcd]
name=RedHat Linux 9 from CD
labels=Red Hat Linux 9 cd number %d
baseurl=removable:///
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IRC: irc.freenode.net #asplinux Grigory Bakunov
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Life would be so much easier if
we could just look at the source code.
