[Server-devel] iso size

[Jerry Vonau]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 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 :-/
>>
> 
Should of had my coffee first...

> 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.
>>
Now that xs-release is at 9-0.4.13 $releasever should work correctly as 
yum resolves $releasever via rpm. from my notes:
http://lists2.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2007-October/029318.html

Should be able to just supply stock repo files from fedora and add the 
olpcxs ones.


> 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.


Just thinking when we should take the hit on this one now, or later....
I'm thinking out loud, since this hasn't gone live yet. Maybe we should 
  use the F7/F10 naming scheme for the repo files, and not call the good 
update repo "fedora-updates-newkey.repo", but just "fedora-updates.repo" 
but really use the url to the newkey repo. That way when we move to F10 
we're not in the same boat as now, dealing with the "newkey repo"

Just a thought,

Jerry