New repository configuration ponderings

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:53, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 17:33 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > I've been thinking about improving the repository configuration and
> > related things for a while now. Just yesterday I realized we could
> > easily use the existing main configuration system for this, instead of
> > inventing yet-another-file-format and parser for it.
> >
> > The repository configuration would look somewhat like this:
> >
> > ---
> > Repositories {
> >     fedora-core {
> >         type "repomd";
> >         baseuri "http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/";
> >         dist "fedora/linux/core/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/os/";
> > 	label "Fedora Core $(VERSION) - $(ARCH)";
> >         enabled "true";
> >         gpg-key "file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora";
> >         gpg-check "true";
> >     };
>
> Attached is a working bare minimum implementation of this format
> (configuration goes into apt.conf or apt.conf.d in this version). It's
> not a lot of code but already enables the very thing I need to use yum
> for these days: --enablerepo/disablerepo=<somerepo> in the form -o
> repositories::<reponame>::enabled=true|false
>
> 	- Panu -

How much has been done on this feature? Is it in the latest release?
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