Kusu/OCS

Overview

repopatch is a tool that downloads updates for various OS distribution. It is capable of downloading updated packages from the Internet. repopatch will only retrieve updates for the distribution that repoman supports.

OS distribution

Every OS distribution maintains some degree of updates. These updates are published on a well defined location that a package manager is able to retrieve from. For example, Fedora Core 6 stores them at http://example.com/Linux/packages/fe...updates/6/i386. ...

Overview

repoman is responsible for creating various OS repositories supported in Kusu. Every OS such as Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 or Fedora Core 6, has a specific directories layout.

Repositories

A repository is a set of well defined directories that contains installation images, software packages and certain meta information. Meta information such as yum meta information is used by Anaconda to install rpms.

Creating a repository

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