[Yum] user/passwd in ftp url supported?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Oct 28 02:57:26 UTC 2003


> > Who is working on this?  It would seem that the install process would
> > get complicated quickly.  The different distros often use different FSHs and 
> > custom locations for config stuff.  Great idea but what a headache?


we're talking about metadata repository format.

so instead of the header.info and *.hdrs for yum and Packages.gz and
Releases for apt, etc, etc, etc, for all the other formats, the goal is
to have one format that any/all of them can use.

-sv





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