On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:26:58 +0100 Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > repomd.xml and primary.xml contain relative URLs. It appears that > yum even recognizes the xml:base attribute on <location> elements. > However, the relative URL resolution does not seem to follow RFC > 3986, Section 5.2 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2>. > For example, I've got a repository which specifies this: > > <location xml:base="http://download.example.com/root"; > href="packages/example-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm"/> > > My reading of RFC 3986 suggests that the combined URL should be: > > http://download.example.com/packages/example-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm > > However, the expected URL (from the server directory layout and the > fact that yum can download the RPM) appears to be: > > http://download.example.com/root/packages/example-0.1-1.x86_64.rpm > > That is, a relative reference does not replace the document part of > the path (as it does in web browsers). > > Is there a high-level description of how yum combines URLs? Any > suggestions for approximating that? > pretty sure it combines them like this: base + '/' + href -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
