On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 15:00, Julien Olivier wrote:
It would be *much* better if the same packages could be included within a repository like rpm.livna.org, so the user doesn't need to maintain an increasing list of repositories for individual packages.
Maybe something even better: isn't it possible for a repository to automatically include another repository. For example, it would be great if one repository could "depend" on more repositories (rpm.livna.org, macromedia.mplug.org, jpackage.org etc...) so that end-users would only have to add 1 line in there yum.conf and still get packages from many repositories. It would be a kind of meta-repository.
Is it already do-able in apt/yum or should I file a request for enhancement ?
Apt supports "meta-repositories" but only within a single server so it's not really what you're asking for. Something like this could be done in the mirror-selector (in fedora.us apt) but more generally support for this could be included in the common repository metadata system.
- Panu -