[tools] New upcoming mrepo 0.8.5

[Ben Kevan]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 05:46:24 pm Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Nearly after 2 years I am preparing a new release. This release will add a
> lot of new features that have been sitting in subversion, see the
> ChangeLog for a full list.
>
> The most important change I added today is the added RHEL4 rhn and
> up2date_client libraries in /usr/share/mrepo/, albeit not in the exact
> same location as before (since I now added rhnlib as well for SLES and
> other distros). So it looks for /usr/share/mrepo/{rhn,up2date_client}
>
> Also new are the unionfs (merge all your CDs to a single directory) and
> fuseiso (mount as user) patches that are now enabled by default if your
> system has both binaries installed. What is missing is a proper check for
> fuse-support though.
>
> I would be very interested if as many people as possible can check these
> patches. They work fine for me but your mileage may vary.
>
> Also, I would be very interested if people can verify the createrepo-check
> functionality, there have been many reports that it did or did not work
> and to be honest I lost track what versions of createrepo works with the
> patch.
>
> Let me know ASAP, thanks :)

Dag, 

This is great news. I've been using subversion on a test system for a while 
with no issues. 

Looking forward to the very anticipated release of mrepo 0.8.5 (finally can 
upgrade my production box.. yay)

Ben