Repository feature proposal
Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Sun Oct 19 17:06:18 UTC 2003
Le dim 19/10/2003 à 18:24, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le dim 19/10/2003 à 17:45, seth vidal a écrit :
> > There is work going on in the development branch of yum to allow for a
> > dir like this. We're using configparser format instead of xml b/c it
> > makes the config files very easy for humans to grok, I have a few
> > problems using xml for a config file that people need to edit b/c I've
> > found xml config files tend to confuse users.
>
> Sure - however xml is getting more prevalent and even if it's not the
> easiest format to grok for a human it's always easier than learn
> yet-another-config-file format.
[ Replying to myself since I fear I wasn't too clear ]
Something like this is perfectly human-readable and valid xml. I fail to
see how un-xmlizing could make it more readable.
<repository>
<name>Fedora</name>
<description>
.....
.....
.....
</description>
<description lang="klingon">
.....
.....
</description>
<stream name="core"/>
<stream name="updates"/>
<stream name="extras"/>
<stream name="unstable"/>
<mirrorset>
<provider>Red Hat</provider>
<description> ....
</description>
<mirror url="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/...."
arch="x86"
every="3h"/>
<mirror url="rsync://opteronium.redhat.com/...."
arch="opteronium"
every="24h"/>
....
<mirror url="http://sources.redhat.com/...."
arch="src"
every="3h"/>
</mirrorset>
<mirrorset>
<provider>Foo University</provider>
<provider lang="fr">Université Foo</provider>
<description>Only .edus please</description>
<description lang="fr">Réservé au monde éducatif</description>
<stream name="core"/>
<stream name="updates"/>
<mirror url="ftp://foo.edu/x86/...."
arch="x86"
every="24h"/>
<mirror url="ftp://foo1.edu/sparc/...."
arch="sparc"
every="2d"/>
<mirror url="ftp://foo2.edu/sparc/...."
arch="sparc"
every="2d"/>
</mirrorset>
...
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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