[Yum] Multiple Repository Hell

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Mar 12 05:10:48 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:10, R P Herrold wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ummm --- I wrote and gpl'd exactly that code a month ago, and 
> before that had RFE'd a mechanism to place major/minor 
> versions into the yum environment.
> 
>     http://www.owlriver.com/support/yum/
> 

Yah, I know. I was sorta hinting that expanding that script so you could
pick out from a list of repositories which ones you wanted available to
yum.

That'd be cool.

Then store that in a string.

That string you could put in a getrequest and have handed back you
specially crafted yum.conf repos.

-sv






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