[Yum] Multiple Repository Hell

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Tue Mar 11 23:21:57 UTC 2003


On 11 Mar 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 17:11, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > We didn't think all of this up at once, it's been several years that evolved 
> > into this format, but it works quite well.
> > 
> 
> 
> Two comments:
> 
> 1. has anyone ever considered needing something like a web-driven/db to
> store hostname/yum.conf that could be editable by admins, so that when
> host12345 connects to a cgi script it gets back a customized yum.conf
> for it.
> 
> 2. Several years that evolved into this format? Several years?? /me does
> a quick check on the lifetime of yum so far... Hmm you guys at fermi
> working with flux capacitors now-a-days? ;)

Well, you SORT of started with yup, a bit, until it proved insanely
incomplete and unmaintained...

Go back to the beginning of yup-time and it might make a couple of
years.

yum, however, is but a baby, celebrating its 1.0.0 birthday...;-)

   rgb

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