[packagers] Re: [tools] mrepo ( annoyance more than a bug )

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Who Knows wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Who Knows wrote:
> >
> > > When an update source is defined with a (file://) url mrepo creates a
> > > symbolic
> > > link to the directory it is mirroring which works great, but when update
> > > is
> > > run the list of new rpms is not generated since their are no different
> > > directory contents to compare.
> >
> > Hmm, that seems not right. If it creates a symlink from srcdir, generate
> > should recreate the individual symlinks from wwwdir to srcdir and
> > Repo.check() should as a result mark the repository as changed, recreate the
> > sha1sum file and trigger a rebuild of the selected metadata.
>   
> It just dawned on me that I am using the 0.8.4 ( release version ) I should
> probably look at the svn version. I know you made many updates, I just hadn't
> updated because they seemed mostly for rhn which I don't use.

I'll be damned for not releasing anything new. My biggest problem is that 
I really have no feeling whether the SVN version is release-worthy or not.

Kind regards,
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