While testing repoquery I noticed that the FC updates repository metadata doesn't include the SRPMS directories at all. So far nothing has used the SRPMS information but that's changing: yum-src for doing things like installing build-dependencies is planned/in the works and repoquery can already use that info, for example:
[pmatilai@chip ~]$ repoquery.py --source -l yum
yum-2.1.11.tar.gz
yum-ia32e-2.1.11.patch
yum.conf.fedora
yum.spec
Would be nice to have this fixed, at least in FC4 but why not FC3 updates as well, shouldn't be terribly hard :)
While at it, it might make sense to split out the repository metadata somewhat as suggested by Seth here: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2005-March/000833.html
In short: split SRPMS, debuginfo and the actual binaries to separate repositories: most people will never need the debuginfo and source packages yet having all those lumped into the main repodata slows down yum operations and causes unnecessary network traffic as well.
- Panu -
