[Fedora-livecd-list] cachedir conflict... bug?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:57 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:07:10 -0500
> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Don't do that.  You're basically saying that you have a repository
> > named foo but foo is two different things depending on how you run.  
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > Are there any genuine bugs in anything I described above?
> > > Shouldn't yum warn or error out when it sees the repodata arch
> > > conflict?  
> > 
> > repodata doesn't have an inherent archness.  You can have repodata
> > containing packages of all arches.  
> 
> FWIW in pungi I use a single cache name for all arches.  However for
> every single run I expire the metadata and require fresh metadata be
> downloaded.  This seems to work for me, not many people have complained
> about getting new repodata every run.

That doesn't sound crazy.  If someone were to provide the patch, I'd
almost certainly apply it.  Or I'll get to it "eventually"

Jeremy