Re: building plugin that simulates repository...

[Dmitry Makovey <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011, Dan White wrote:
> Why not just make a repo out of your RPM's ?

Fair question. I have considered that before, but because CPacMan repos are 
bit more dynamic in nature (think real-time changes) (we have packages moving 
from repo-to-repo, added/deleted, all the time and running "createrepo" every 
time seems like unnecessary step in the process). Setting up each and every 
repo manually would be quite a bit of overhead. They are already defined in 
CPacMan and it would be nice not to have to re-define them every time. Plus 
when things move internally for CPacMan it would be nice to avoid following 
this up with same updates of Yum configs (I know I can do the "generate Yum 
configs from CPacMan configs" but that misses quite a few other things too). 
Also what I am trying to do is to keep CPacMan and Yum at arms length with the 
only bridge - cpacman_yum plugin which helps in not "reinventing the wheel" 
and keeps cpacman itself fairly independant of Yum's evolution (which is *not* 
a comment on Yum's quality/capability/availability/stability/etc.). 

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Dmitry Makovey
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