On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:05:38PM -0500, James Antill wrote:
$releasever just changes the variable, so the URLs are all the same
...
just with different variables. Specifically:
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releas...
...is never going to ==
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
...I guess if we make sure MM understands what the new numbers mean
pretty quickly (ie. before branching) this is fine.
MM now has redirects for fedora-14 to rawhide.
Unfortunately, that's a manual step that has to be done at the
branchpoint - I haven't taught the MM directory traversal script how
to automatically detect the branch and move the redirects. But one
script every 6 months, I can live with.
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