On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Been thinking of this for awhile now, before /intermediates/shared/ came > into use, but is not at the top of my list of things to do. Going to > need pass --cacheonly from OOB anyway to force the use of the cache > after the first pass of OOB, so why bother with the upstream patches. > You are more or less creating a local mirror of the remote repo but with > just the to be installed rpms present. > > Think we can do that now with what is in imgcreate after the first pass > of OOB by passing a new global option use_cache= in OOB's .ini file to > repos.py. This new option could link new path[1] to path[2] then run > createrepo against path[3] and change baseurl= to be file:///path[4] for > each repo found by repos.py. This should keep yum's metadata straight > between the "main cache" in imgcreate when online and the offline "repo" > as the metadata would be updated before the repos are used. > > 1. build/intermediates/shared/repos/<repo used from repos.py>/packages > 2. build/cache/imgcreate/<repo>/packages > 3. build/intermediates/shared/repos/<repo used from repos.py>/ > 4. build/intermediates/shared/repos/<repo>/
Maybe it is subjective, but Martin's patch on the upstream approach seems like a much simpler and cleaner solution to me. Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
