Livna repo broken?

Temlakos temlakos at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 22:14:03 UTC 2007


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:33 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>   
>> On Fri February 9 2007 11:05:10 am Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>     
>>> First  of all smart does not use the original livna.repo. It
>>> forces you to create a livna channel. This breaks the
>>> structure of the livna.repo because smart, as far as I can
>>> see, has the same bug as yumex. It cannot have a channel with
>>> multiple baseurls.
>>> At least that is what I found. So in my opinion it is smart
>>> that is to blame not livna.
>>>       
>> I'm sorry, but this is just plain wrong. What do you mean "does 
>> not use the original livna repo"? Livna actually provides a 
>> script that sets up livna for smart, if you choose to run it. It 
>> sets up the livna channel with the livna baseurl, and it sets up 
>> the mirrors. And it works well. It's not supposed to have a 
>> channel with multiple base url's - it has a different syntax, 
>> and comparing it to yum or yumex is like mixing apples and 
>> orangutans
>>     
> My statement was that smart does not use the livna.repo which is what
> the OP asked about using. It does not but uses a channel equivalent
> produced by running the script you spoke about. Now the question is does
> the channel designate multiple baseurls or not. The livna.repo
> identifies multiple baseurls. Does the smart channel? As far as I can
> see it does not but I am willing to be corrected.
> --
>   
The script sets up six different channels (and disables all but one of 
them), /and/ sets up a comprehensive list of mirror sites. AFAICT, the 
mirrors are good for all channels listed.

Temlakos




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