Fedora repository layout proposal

Otto Haliburton ottohaliburton at comcast.net
Thu Mar 10 14:45:31 UTC 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:21 AM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Fedora repository layout proposal
> 
> 
> While testing repoquery I noticed that the FC updates repository metadata
> doesn't include the SRPMS directories at all. So far nothing has used the
> SRPMS information but that's changing: yum-src for doing things like
> installing build-dependencies is planned/in the works and repoquery can
> already use that info, for example:
> [pmatilai at chip ~]$ repoquery.py --source -l yum
> yum-2.1.11.tar.gz
> yum-ia32e-2.1.11.patch
> yum.conf.fedora
> yum.spec
> 
> Would be nice to have this fixed, at least in FC4 but why not FC3 updates
> as well, shouldn't be terribly hard :)
> 
> While at it, it might make sense to split out the repository metadata
> somewhat as suggested by Seth here:
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum-devel/2005-March/000833.html
> In short: split SRPMS, debuginfo and the actual binaries to separate
> repositories: most people will never need the debuginfo and source
> packages yet having all those lumped into the main repodata slows down yum
> operations and causes unnecessary network traffic as well.
> 
>  	- Panu -
> 
maybe this is the reason that if you select the update source flag with
up2date it doesn't work.





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