On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:17 -0800, superbnerd wrote: > I am not sure if this is already been suggested, but it would be very > convenient and seemingly easy to include a repo grouping feature. The > reason this is needed is because there are several repos for fedora, > but not all of them are compatible with each other. There are several > alliances like fedora.us/livna and dag/dries/freshrpms/atrpms/newrpms > (the new RF alliance http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#Z1 > and http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/mega-merge.php) and > extra/official updates. > The feature should have a similar syntax to yum --enablerepo="xxxx". > It should be something like yum --enablerepogroup="RF", and the user > should be able to define the name of each repo group and pick which > repos belong to which repo in the same way they enable a repo with the > "enabled=1" option when configuring repos. Instead of "enabled=1" > there should be a repogroup="XXXX" option. > > This would greatly mitigate the repo allaince conflicts that exist for > fedora (and I image other distros). > > wouldn't it be easier to just have enablerepo and disablerepo take wildcards? and then just name your repos sensibly RF-dagrpms RF-freshrpms RF-newrpms yum --enablerepo=RF* update -sv
