Re: What's repomd.xml?

dE <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:34:28 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/25/14 11:15, James Antill wrote:
> dE <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>  From what it looks like, it provides the location of various package
>> indexes in the mirror/repository
>   Yeh, it can contain tags/etc. (see: yum repoinfo) but that's basically
> it. It's the metadata about the repo.
>
>> , however the man page says --
>>
>> "a list of mirrors"
>>
>> But I dont see a link to any set of server/mirrors.
>   What part of what man pages talks about repomd.xml? The only bit I
> can see is the text for the metalink option, which is a list of
> mirrors and the checksum of the repomd.xml
>
Sorry for the super-late response. This string can be search for in 
yum.conf man page.