On 10 Feb 2012, at 00:33, Perry Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/09/2012 05:09 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mike Burns" <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 5:00:54 PM
>>> Subject: Repo files
>>> 
>>> Currently, we are providing 2 repo files, both named
>>> ovirt-engine.repo.
>>> One is located in the nightly area of the repository, and the other
>>> in
>>> the stable area.
>>> 
>>> Would it make more sense to:
>>> 
>>> 1.  Have a single repo file containing an entry for both stable and
>>> nightly with just stable enabled by default?
>>> 2.  Provide this in some form of ovirt-release RPM?
>>> 
>> 
>> This was brought up previously and my belief was (and is) that yes we should 
>> do this. At the time the repo and spec file I made with assistance from 
>> Karsten were put here:
>> 
>>    http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Yum_repo_file
>> 
>> A few minor changes are required (for instance I don't believe we include 
>> the arch in the path as originally suggested nor do we have SRPM directories 
>> yet) but I still think for the most part this holds. In particular I think 
>> using a repo file distributed in an RPM is very useful because:
>> 
>> - We can update the repo file and bump the NVR of the RPM as required and 
>> have yum pick it up as required, rather than putting it on the website and 
>> hoping users see the note to grab an updated one.
>> - One repo file to rule them all, this configuration supports both nightly 
>> and stable from one file (ideally) in a consistent location.
>> - Will make life much easier when we want to add a GPG key and start signing 
>> packages.
> 
> +1 to Steve's proposal

+1 here as well. 

Feel free to combine the repo files, sounds better than the current 
configuration. 

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