On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:26:42PM -0600, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: > Wouldn't this whole errata management be easier if you could point it at > a repo and have it one level higher, so it could see the OS and the > updates, and just mirror those over itself? It seems like this is way > more complicated then it needs to be and I'm not understanding why it's > done the way it is.
Are you asking for my script to parse a yum repository's metadata to retrieve NVREA values, or just "friendlier" behaviour for package_dir? If the former, I suppose the script could do that but I suspect it would be rather more complex than querying an RPM. Since I have the RPMs on local disk anyway (for mock) it's not a priority for me. If the latter, I could change the handling of package_dir so that it looks for RPMS in all subdirectories, though I can't any advantage in doing so. Packages in the "updates" repository are the only ones that get mentioned in CentOS-announce mailings so looking in other repositories seems pointless. That said, most of the machinery to do such looking is already in the development version of the script for supporting multiple architectures so I might just add it and see what happens. Regards, -- David Nutter Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4888 BioSS, JCMB, King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EH9 3JZ. Scotland, UK Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) is formally part of The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), a registered Scottish charity No. SC006662 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list