[repo-coord] dag, newrpms, kde-redhat, jpackage for FC1 (was: Dag FC1 repo for newer yum version)

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > Ccing repo-coord as this is more of interest there.
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:12:00PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > 
> > > http://apt.sw.be/fedora/1/en/i386/dag/
> > > 
> > > RPMS/                   28-Jul-2005 02:41    -   
> > > headers/                28-Jul-2005 02:41    -  
> > > 
> > > which doesn't contain the required repodata directory.
> > > 
> > > This seems to mean that when upgrading to yum 2.3.4, we lose access to Dag's
> > > repo which seems to be yum 2.0 compatible?
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to make this work?
> > 
> > Kindly asking Dag to provide the metadata support? :)
> 
> I'm already spending 1 hour generating all metadata, which is causing 
> inflexibility and time-wasting on my end. Adding even more repodata will 
> only worsen this situation.
> 
> Unless we have a single application generating metadata for all formats, 
> I'm not interested in supporting new-yum on older distributions for that 
> reason.

I reconsidered, now that createrepo has md5 caching support I added 
new-yum metadata support for all the Fedora repositories.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]