On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:17 AM Adrian Reber <adr...@lisas.de> wrote:
>
> Recently a bug was opened to add additional repositories to
> MirrorManager for epel-next. One of the problems with adding new
> repository definitions to MirrorManager is that the definitions are part
> of the code. For each new/changed repository a new release is needed.
>
> I was thinking about changing this for a long time. Have the repository
> definition in a configuration file.
>

Making this a configuration file would also make it easier to adopt in
other projects. For example, it's still bandied about for openSUSE.
The hardwired definitions in the codebase are a problem, though.

> During the last months I have been rewriting umdl in Rust after the
> first two MirrorManager tools rewritten in Rust proofed to be really
> reliable during the last 1.5 years.
>
> The new tool, scan-primary-mirror, is already used in RPM Fusion for a
> few weeks and now with the need to have epel-next repositories I
> replaced umdl only for EPEL also in Fedora.
>
> So far it seems to work correctly. The epel-next repositories have been
> detected and all other metalinks have also been updated correctly.
>
> Please let me know if something around EPEL metalinks is not working as
> expected.
>

Are these tools packaged in Fedora yet?



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