On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 10:29, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:57:04AM -0000, Aleš Matěj wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 05:25:17PM +0000, Mattia Verga via devel wrote:
> > I have a few additional questions:
> >
> > * How does this impact zchunk? or does it?
>
> I also think there shouldn't be any impact on zchunk.
ok. Great to hear.
> > * Kind of unrealted to this change, but I'll ask here as createrepo_c
> > folks might know off hand: Is it possible to decouple drpms from a
repo?
> > ie, if we had a updates repo and a completely seperate updates-drpms
> > repo with just drpms in it, what would it take to use that? Changes in
> > dnf I guess? but also changes in createrepo_c to generate repodata for
a
> > repo that was only drpms?
>
> Such repos can be created by createrepo_c and modifyrepo_c but it is a
bit awkward.
> Basically first create normal (coupled) repo and then extract the
prestodelta.xml and drpms
> into a new repo. Additionally createrepo_c API could be used to make it
more straight forward.
Well, I was thinking of a completely disconnected process. ie, the drpms
are created compltely seperately from the main repo and a
prestodelta.xml is created there in the seperate repo.
Or hear me out here for this wild thought: We stop offering drpms.
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