Fedora, yumsync, mirrorlist (was: Smart 1.0 is out!)

[Anders F Björklund]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>> I'm currently using something like "mirror.centos.org" or other
>> local repository mirror server myself so don't use mirrorlist much,
>> but I can see how it is needed for migrating yum's .repo info...
>
> W/o having checked yumsync it currently would not be able to determine
> what method if any is being used to map yum's mirrorlist support onto
> smart.
>
> So whatever the canonical way to do it will become yumsync will need
> to be adapted to it.

The current "method" (hack) fetches the mirrorlist url and uses the
first uncommented line (starting with http:// or ftp://) as baseurl...

https://code.launchpad.net/~smartpm/smart/plugins

> And wrt to the other mail on gpgchecks: That would be quite nice as
> well and would probably also require some new mapping from yumsync
> (unless yumsync's author already wrote yumsync with the gpg mapping in
> mind).

Once the feature is added to Smart, mapping the fields over from
Yum's .repo to Smart's .channel shouldn't be very difficult...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/245647

--anders