On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:37 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:52:14PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:03:59PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > so why not make the repo like this: > > > createrepo -x *.src.rpm -x *.debuginfo* -g Fedora/base/comps.xml . > > > > > > and then make another srpm repository in the SRPMS dir all on its own. > > > Ditto with debuginfo. > > > > > > but then we should add disabled-by-default srpm and debuginfo repos to > > > each .repo file in yum.repos.d > > > > +1 > > -1 > > I would prefer this to be an option for yum.conf with data being written > to separate files instead of using a separate repo location. Would allow > reading e.g. debuginfo items if such an rpm is actually installed. > But the only way you're going to know if the debuginfo items are there is by reading through all of the debuginfo metadata. so it's a net loss for users who for I'd be willing to wager >95% of the time do not EVER use debuginfo rpms. and for the 5% of the time they need them they can simply do: yum --enablerepo=base-debug install foo-debuginfo you're cutting off a lot of packages. Also - are you -1'ing the whole idea or just the idea as regards debuginfo packages? We can save a lot of data by pruning out src.rpms. -sv
