Re: Newbie/Neophyte
Jesse Keating <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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| Organization | j2Solutions |
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On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:14 -0500, Jon Wallace wrote: > > 1) What is .discinfo and where can I find a description of each > key/value pair .discinfo is used by Anaconda mostly. I don't know if there is any documentation that fully describes each key/value. Discussion at [email protected] > 2) What is .treeinfo and where can I find a description of entries in > it, as well as a description of how it functions. .treeinfo is used by things that interact with Fedora/RH style trees. QA tools, virt-install tools, etc.. The content should be fairly self explanatory, but again it's not documented. Currently there is code in my tool, pungi, which creates the files while the trees are being composed. [email protected] is likely the best email list for pungi > 3) If I want to build something with multiple DVD's, how does anaconda > know when to call for "the other disk media"? Split media sets have a slightly different yum repodata in them, repodata that references which media # of a set the package lives on. This tells consumers, such as anaconda, when to prompt the user to switch media. [email protected] again. > 4) Lot of talk on Internet about comps.xml, but in RHEL I see > comps-rhel5-server-core.xml and there is no comps.xml shipped. The xml file name doesn't really matter. A reference to the file is embedded in the yum repodata at createrepo time, and consumers of the metadata will download and process whatever it's called. The term "comps" doesn't even have to be in the name, and is just a historical name and practice. There is no "governing body" over comps. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://jkeating.livejournal.com) Fedora Project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) identi.ca (http://identi.ca/jkeating) _______________________________________________ Rpm-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-metadata
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