buildroots.xml and packages have to be in same location?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:13 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Seth,
> 
> Using your mach SRPM and buildroots file, I had to actually pull down all the 
> packages locally and place the buildroots.xml file in the same dir as the 
> packages, then run createrepo on it before it would take (obviously pointing 
> mach to the local files as the yumsource).
> 
> It seems that (unless I'm mistaken) the buildroots.xml file needs to be in any 
> repo that I'd point mach to?  Is that correct?  Is there no way of keeping the 
> buildroots.xml file locally, or at some other site, separate from the actual 
> packages?

did you look at the 'buildgroups' repo I have in the fedore core
development mach dist.d file?

You can simply list them there, in a repository empty of files, and yum
pulls it in.

-sv