2008/3/11, Mark Constable <markc@renta.net>:
I'm just checking if this could be a reasonable idea and if so I'd look into providing a patch. Would it be feasible to add a %PATHNAME% variable to the sync desc file ?
For instance in this case, fetching "any" arch packages would not need to symlinked into the same directory to be found...
%FILENAME% hotstuff-0.9.2-1-any.pkg.tar.bz2
%PATHNAME% ../any/
It may provide repo maintainers with some flexibility (hard to test without it being possible) and perhaps %PATHNAME% could also be a URL and that might also be interesting, but the simple relative path prefix would be useful.
Any thoughts?
Hm, so basically, this adds a possibility to have packages in different directory than .db.tar.gz, or even multiple directories. Seems useful for me, and as you've said - repo layout for 'any' arch will become cleaner. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)