[Server-devel] iso size

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> Well, it's gone from xs-release -- why does it show up as active?
>>> Maybe we have to recommend a manual step, but what would that be?
>>>
>> It's from fedora-release, and was used for the normal updates repo, until
>> the "key issue" came into being. xs-release will need to follow what ever
>> fedora-release does, my guess is to rename/disable that repo file. I'm
>> pretty sure fedora-release will change back to the prior layout post F9.
>> Might want to check the layout of a F10 fedora-release.
> 
> I've read that thrice now, and I have to confess, I can't quite follow
> what you are trying to say :-/
> 

You have fedora-release installed for F7 with it supplying the repo 
files for F7, into /etc/yum.repos.d. fedora.repo fedora-updates.repo

> xs-release was built copying on the post-new-key fedora package, from
> the F9 'branch' in CVS. Instead of using $release in the yum files,
> I've hardcoded the 'f9' there because we fiddle with $release.
>
Yes, which installs the your fedora.repo and fedora-updates-newkey.repo 
into /etc/yum.repos.d now.

> In xs-0.4 we had yum reading a different yum repos directory, with
> repos there that were a bit messy. With xs-0.5 we return to using the
> files in yum.repos.d - as vanilla fedora does. When we port to F10 or
> F11 we'll update the files, of course, but that comes later.
> 
The fedora-updates.repo is from the F7 install and is active with 
enabled=1 as that is what would of provided the updates prior to the 
"newkey.repo" coming into being.

> Another thing to note is that the 'olpcxs-testing' repo we'll continue
> to use towards 0.6, whereas the 'olpcxs' repo is clearly xs-0.5.
> 
> Does that make sense to you? Can you see a significant problem in the setup?
> 
Should work fine.

Jerry