repo setup [RFC]

[Mike Burns]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 12:33 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> So the requests I have received or heard so far around "providing
> package and tarball download locations" are:
> 
> 1. ftp.ovirt.org as location with packages for various distros as well
> as binary and source tarballs.
> 
> 2. Yum repository for the Fedora packages being worked on, until they
> get in to Fedora.
> 
> 3. Location for different distros package management tools to find
> packages.
> 
> 4. Centrally maintained details (examples) of the files used for
> different package management needs, e.g. files for /etc/yum.repos.do/ etc.
> 
> Items 2 & 3 are essentially the same, but I wanted to call out the Yum
> repository since it's a top priority to happen this week. :)
> 
> Here are my proposals for this:
> 
> A. We have a neutral package repository URL base of ovirt.org/repo.

I agree on most of this, but I'd call it releases instead of repo

Mike
> 
> B. The same directory tree can host .zip and tarballs.
> 
> C. We setup ftp.ovirt.org to serve FTP and HTTP of the /repo directory
> as the DocumentRoot for ftp.ovirt.org.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> - - Karsten
> 
> http://ovirt.org/wiki/Yum_repo_file
> 
> # Place this file in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory
> 
> [ovirt]
> name=Builds of the oVirt project
> baseurl=http://ovirt.org/repo/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/
> enabled=1
> skip_if_unavailable=1
> gpgcheck=0
> 
> [ovirt-source]
> name=Builds of the oVirt project - Source
> baseurl=http://ovirt.org/repo/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/SRPMS
> enabled=0
> skip_if_unavailable=1
> gpgcheck=0
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> - -- 
> name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Architect
> team:    Red Hat Community Architecture & Leadership
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