up2date and apt/yum repositories

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 26 19:24:06 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:48, Adrian Likins wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > I've been doing some testing using
> > 
> > up2date-3.9.13-2
> > 
> > Firstly an obvious should bail is:
> > 
> > up2date --get-source against a yum url, I believe yum-arch now indexes
> > headers of src.rpms but when running against fedora I get:
> > 
> > up2date --get-source synaptic
> > ...
> > synaptic-0.43.1-0.fdr.1.rh90.93.src.rpm...
> > There was some sort of I/O error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > 
> > Should we ignore src.rpm headers in yum archives as the path to them is
> > not necessarily obvious (parallel with yum directory, or a subdirectory,
> > etc).
> >
> 	Right now it guesses it's parallel with the yum directory,
> since this seemed the most popular layout after a quick survery. 
> But yum doesnt indicate where SRPMS are stashed in any obvious
> way, so it's currently a guess. If the SRPMS stuff gets standardized,
> I can make it respect that. 
>  
You can't just use whatever the header.src.info points stuff to?

or is it the arch thing that's holding it up?

-sv






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