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