On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:49 +1000, David Timms wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > Hi, > > Over the last couple of weeks we've put together a mirror checking tool > > and a cgi that will verify the currency of the mirrorlist. Then it will > > generate lists per-country based on geoip country codes as well as a > > global mirror list. > ... > > [development] > > name=Fedora Core - Development > > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch > > > > > > and for extras: > > > > [extras-development] > > name=Fedora Extras - Development Tree > > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-devel&arch=$basearch > I have tried this on an FC5 + nearly up2date machine, and with the > "correct" repo=, it produced a useful mirrorlist and went ahead and > updated both core and extras OK. > > ##mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releasever&arch=$basearch > > ##mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$releasever&arch=$basearch > > Would it make sense for the repo= to be the repo name, and encode the > version eg 1..whatever + rawhide as version=$releasever ? > ie: > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras&version=$releasever&arch=$basearch > > Also when yum reads the .repo, could it use the name from either x.repo > or the repos defined internally as [extras-debuginfo] etc as a $variable ? > why bother adding all that complexity to yum? it's just a url - how it is comprised makes no difference at all. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
