[Yum] Yum article at LWN.net

Matthias Saou matthias at rpmforge.net
Thu Sep 25 15:10:13 UTC 2003


seth vidal wrote :

> > http://lwn.net/Articles/49665/
> > 
> 
> Yah a real sweetheart of commentary too. The author seems to have not
> read any of the documentation nor has he done much looking around for
> yum repositories.
> 
> His complaint about the lack of a progress bar for downloads is
> legitimate and it's my fault.
> 
> The other two complaints seem like red herrings.

"[...] while the other main repository at Fresh RPMs only provides
apt-enabled package sources"

Huh!? I've been providing yum-enabled repositories for a while now! :-/
Looks like a quickly tossed out article to me...

Thanks Seth for your early comment correcting this!

Matthias

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