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0:50 bobmcw: and wanted to test-build an appliance, but it didn't check my local RPM builds
10:50 bobmcw: so I had to scp to repository.boxgrinder.org and createrepo
10:50 bobmcw: is there some --local-rpms flag to use locally-produced RPMs during early dev cycle?
10:50 bobmcw: I know I could add a file:/// repo to my appl
10:50 bobmcw: but that seemed ugly
10:50 mgoldmann: bobmcw: some kind of
10:51 mgoldmann: yes, this is the way, + mark it as ephemeral repo
10:51 bobmcw: "mark as emphemeral repo" ?
10:51 mgoldmann: yes, it's ugly, you don't want to check in this to the repo
10:51 mgoldmann: ephemeral: true
10:51 mgoldmann: one sec
10:51 mgoldmann: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BoxGrinderBuildApplianceDefinitionFile#Ephemeral_repositories
10:52 bobmcw: so, in my .appl during dev, add a repo with a file:// pointing down into my fedora/13/noarch/
10:52 mgoldmann: yes + this epehemeral to not mess your appliance
10:53 bobmcw: if I don't do ephemeral, then that file:/// gets added as one of the appliance's own repos?
10:53 bobmcw: in /etc/yum.conf onboard it?
10:53 mgoldmann: exactly
10:53 mgoldmann: makes sense?
10:53 bobmcw: yep, thanks!
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