[Yum] Weird wish

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Mar 2 20:05:28 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:57 -0800, karsten wrote:
>Hello Seth,
>
>I got a weird wish:
>
>How about a "message of the day" function for a repository?
>
>Let me elaborate a bit on the reasoning....
>I use yum for a number of update functions, but I also use yum for 
>development purposes. Ex: I want to set myth-tv up, but I want to know 
>what packages are really needed, so I start off with a bare FC2 or FC3.
>Then I create a new repository and start filling it up as the myth 
>packages require.
>Just an example - but......
>
>Somebody (actually quite a few) apparently found this out (how is still 
>a mystery or maybe a myth) and suddenly my poor 800/128kbps DSL line is 
>swamped 24/7.
>Which is understandable, but I would like to tell these people that 
>really - this is nowhere near the bandwidth they need, please go to 
>somwhere.else.com  where a mirror has been put up. Just to make my 
>private line available for other things than just minumum email.
>
>So that is what I would like a message of the day for. Info - not swearing.

1. it's a slippery slope in terms of what you include in such a message
2. it'd be better to include a generic 'repository info url' in the
repodata that could be used for any/all information.

-sv





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