Hello.
I'm writing a Japanese serial based on LinuxCon Japan 2014's presentation material "How to obtain information for troubleshooting enterprise servers" ( http://i-love.sakura.ne.jp/tomoyo/LCJ2014-en.pdf ). In one installment in the serial, I'm planning to explain how to browse source code by extracting source rpm packages.
I thought that it would be convenient if we can refer all source rpm packages in non-latest minor releases using single baseurl= line of yum's repo file (e.g. something like
---------- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Source.repo begin ---------- [base-source] name=base-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/6/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-source] name=updates-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/6/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[oldreleases-source] name=oldreleases-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/6-oldreleases/ gpgcheck=1 ---------- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Source.repo end ----------
rather than
---------- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Source.repo begin ---------- [base-6.0-source] name=base-6.0-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.0/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.0-source] name=updates-6.0-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.0/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[base-6.1-source] name=base-6.1-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.1/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.1-source] name=updates-6.1-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.1/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[base-6.2-source] name=base-6.2-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.2/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.2-source] name=updates-6.2-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.2/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[base-6.3-source] name=base-6.3-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.3-source] name=updates-6.3-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.3/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[base-6.4-source] name=base-6.4-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.4/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.4-source] name=updates-6.4-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.4/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[base-6.5-source] name=base-6.5-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.5/os/Source/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-6.5-source] name=updates-6.5-source baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.5/updates/Source/ gpgcheck=1 ---------- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Source.repo end ----------
) so that we don't need to update the repo file when CentOS 6.6 is released.
In other words, I'd like to hear if any progress can be made since http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-May/134906.html ...
Regards.