Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (24 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Št 31. Máj 2007 17:08 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett napísal:
> We are designing the new repo handling model of the SUSE package manager
> stack to be more compatible with YUM, smart and the build service .repo
> files.
>
> When I looked at the .repo files at the first time, I thought the baseurl=
> was a unique url, which was the url of the origin of the metadata (used to
> identify), and the actual urls were pulled from a mirror list.
> I was confused for a bit when I discovered a .repo can have more than one
> baseurl. Even more when  saw the strange way to do multi-line in the ini
> file.
>
> That means basically, there is no url you can use to, in the case you add
> a .repo file which has a list of urls, but the same base url as an already
> existing .repo, just append the urls to the mirrorlist.
>
> Ok, that sucks (as much as the documentation). But now comes another
> problem.
>
> Our (broken) model, requires a pair (url, path). If we support more than
> one baseurl in the .repo file, you can't have path as a separate unique
> attribute. .repo files doesn't specifiy path. I think the best solution is
> to get rid of path completely. Do we need it? no. It is needed in CD, NFS
> only (probably ISO too?) because we are using it in a wrong way.
>
> Can aynone give examples? why is needed?

Path is used for YaST sources (our installation media), which can contain 
multiple products. In this case, you split the URL for managing multi-media 
installation sources.

Stano
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