[Yum] yum suggestions

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Nov 1 03:42:17 UTC 2003


> Since the HOWTO is still in draft, AT LEAST make the
> man pages accessible from the web site.  

I'll work on that, thanks.


> Put comments in the yum.conf file that ships with the
> yum rpm that can be uncommented to direct the
> installer's PC to second tier (mirror) repository
> servers.
> 

I was talking to elliot peele on irc the other night about this. So in
future versions of yum there will be some functionality to arbitrarily
include files/urls inf your yum.conf ie:

yum.conf:

[main]
...normal stuff...

include=http://mydomain/someyum-main.conf

include=http://mydomain/someyum-update.conf


if the above two locations were cgis that fed out the most common
repositories and/or mirror lists then you could get pitched to a
repository mirror almost at random w/o beating up this poor poor poor
little duke server :)

btw thanks to Ryan Tomayko for the include= functionality.

anyway - the idea would be to have a script of some type to offer up the
most common repository sections based on a list of mirrors.

-sv





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