[JIRA] (OVIRT-1091) Add yum repo "awareness" to repoman

[Barak Korren (oVirt JIRA)]

Barak Korren created OVIRT-1091:
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             Summary: Add yum repo "awareness" to repoman
                 Key: OVIRT-1091
                 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1091
             Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: repoman
            Reporter: Barak Korren
            Assignee: infra


{{repoman}} currently has no support for {{yum}} repos at all. When it gets a URL as a package source, {{repoman}} currently first attempts to detect if that URL is a Jenkins job, and if not, it just tries to download the artefact directly from the URL. To use a {{yum}} repo with {{repoman}}, one need to explicitly specify the '{{rec:}}' flag, to make it search for artifacts recursively.

Full {{yum}} support in {{repoman}} can have many features, such as reading the {{yum}} metadata files to figure out which packages are in the repo, and preforming version calculations prior to downloading packages. This ticket is not about that.

This ticket suggests a simpler implementation to make {{repoman}} "aware" of {{yum}} repos to make it slightly easier to use and reduce user surprise while full {{yum}} support is being developed.

It is suggested that when receiving a source URL, {{repoman}} will check for a '{{*/repodata/repomd.xml}}' file in a similar fashion to the way it checks for the Jenkins API, and if found will act as if the '{{rec:}}' flag was specified.



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