On 28 February 2018 at 08:07, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml@conversis.de wrote:
On 27.02.2018 16:45, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 27 February 2018 at 06:11, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml@conversis.de wrote:
What I mean by inexplicable is that it would make more sense to make reposync a generic tool for syncing yum repos and then simply provide the option to use /etc/yum.conf rather then to hard-code (as is apparently the case) these system specific behaviors.
I think that people have been wanting to do that for 12? years now, but no one seems to have actually done so. I don't know if the code is impossible to fix or that everyone keeps assuming someone else will do it for them someday, or a combination of the two.. [developer starts looking to fix the code, and then just decides that it would be better if someone else fixed it for them someday].
For now what seems to work is using a unique repo name in the config file to make it impossible for reposync to find a matching file in /var/cache/yum but that's more of a hack than a fix for the issue.
.. you know I think that is what I do but just didn't think about why I do it. I apologize for not pointing out that hack-fix so you had to rediscover it.
Regards, Dennis