[tools] mrepo and repository metadata

[Tom G. Christensen]

Edward Rudd wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am announcing a change I would like to do that will impact how mrepo
>> works, but before doing it I would like feedback from users.
>>
>> Currently mrepo creates repositories named RPMS.repo and puts all RPMs
>> inside this directory. That works well for apt, yum and old-yum metadata.
>> The problem is that for SLES (and specifically NLD9) it needs a different
>> directory structure.
>>
>> For that reason I was looking to change the directory structure that 
>> mrepo
>> creates. What do people think if we change in an upcoming version the
>> directory structure from:
>>
>>     dist-arch/
>>         RPMS.repo1/
>>         RPMS.repo2/
>>         disc1/
>>         disc2/
>> to:
>>     dist-arch/
>>         apt/
>>             RPMS.repo1/
>>             RPMS.repo2/
>>         iso/
>>             disc1/
>>             disc2/
>>             disc1.iso
>>             disc2.iso
>>         repomd/
>>             repo1/
>>             repo2/
>>         you/
>>             repo1/
>>                 i586/
>>                 noarch/
>>                 src/
>>             repo2/
>>                 i586/
>>                 noarch/
>>                 src/
>>         yum/
>>             repo1/
>>             repo2/
>>
>> And depending on what metadata you enable, it will create that specific
>> directory for you.
> 
> Hmm..  How about an option to maintain the *old* directory structure 
> except for YOU?
> example:
>     dist-arch/
>         RPMS.repo1/
>         RPMS.repo2/
>         iso/  (This is ok, kinda separates the ISOs out a little)
>             disc1/
>             disc2/
>             disc1.iso
>             disc2.iso
>         you/
>             repo1
>                 i586/
>                 noarch/
>                 src/
> 
> As Personally I really like the short URLs for pointing my systems to 
> for updates.
 >
Me too and I like this proposal alot.

Also I dislike having to specify the metadata type in the url since it's 
redundant for apt/yum/repomd, so let's only require that when it 
absolutely can't be avoided.

-tgc