[CentOS-devel] updateinfo.xml data for CentOS repositories

Tue Jan 14 06:14:43 UTC 2014
Michael Stahnke <stahnma at puppetlabs.com>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 01:22 AM, Shatil Rafiullah wrote:
>> Would an API for accessing this data be necessary when there are
>> CentOS mirrors already?
>>
>> Publishing the file within the repo is what I see Scientific Linux and
>> Fedora doing, and access to that data this way would work fine for me.
>
> yes, and if yum was able to collect repodata that spans multiple repos
> and multiple hosts for those repos - what you are saying will work fine.
> But, I dont think it does.

It doesn't. At least not without downloading all the packages you list
that you want in the repo. :(


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