[Yum] Enhancing the potential of yum to support commercial enterprise...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:42, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> An observation.  For the convenience of those unfamiliar with my style,
> a 
> 
> <summary>  
> 
> I think yum could use:
> 
>   a) At least two authentication mechanisms; userid/passwords as
> discussed and another that uses a keypair or cookie assigned by the
> repository manager and that could be read out of a 600 file e.g.
> /etc/yum.key or $HOME/.yum.key.  This latter would permit nightly
> updates from anywhere independent of source IP address in an automated
> script on a user-specific and user-logging way without needing expect or
> user presence.

- this not impossible - the user:pass stuff works now.

the keys are not that hard, really.


>   b) A fully userspace mode, that uses rpm's --relocate feature to
> install rpm's built to be relocatable into paths in the user's
> personally writeable space.  This latter would enable yum to be used by
> vendors to distribute and update valuable data to ordinary users --
> together with a) in a controlled and accountable way.
> 


1. --relocate is broken.
2. most pkgs will break for it even if they were built right
3. this is crackrock.


-sv