Re: reposync always creating repo specific directories

Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Danny Smith wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Danny Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> I've had to set up reposync recently here to synchronise some of the 
>>> Fedora update repositories, using reposync from yum-utils-1.1.17-1.fc8 
>>> (Fedora 8).
>>> One problem I encountered was wanting the synced repository to be in 
>>> *exactly* the directory I specified. When using the --download-path 
>>> option, reposync unconditionally adds the repository name to the path I've 
>>> specified. With the repository layout we're using internally this isn't 
>>> what I want.
>>> 
>>> I've created a simple crude patch internally to change this behaviour as 
>>> required. Am I missing something, or alternatively is this useful to 
>>> anyone else? (I don't think the option name is optimal, but I failed to 
>>> think of anything better).
>> 
>> Doesn't that option need to conflict if there is more than one repository 
>> available/being synced?
>> 
>> If you could modify it to that end I think I'd accept it.
>> 
>> -sv
> Good point. I've added a check for this, patch attached.
>

I've made a couple of small modification to your patch and committed it to 
yum-utils.

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=236650c63c3a16335a181c00d8cd8b207f58e622


thanks.
-sv
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