[Yum] yum HOWTO draft

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Theresa Chen wrote:

> That depends...on what the general audience.  Do we know what the majority
> consists of?  Sys admins who wants to ditch up2date and reduce load for
> Duke's server or regular joe with a small workstation at home who got
> tired of installing each and individual dependency just to get one
> package working?
> 
> Just out of curiosity, do any of you know?

just to clarify my thoughts on a yum HOWTO (for which, i might add,
there seems to be no link from the yum page to rgb's howto), i'd like
to see a doc along the lines of:

- what is yum and how is it related to rpm?
- what (in brief) does a yum repository look like, and how would
  one write a URL to one?  (examples of a few repositories here)
- how to use yum on the client side (including any config file stuff
  like /etc/yum.conf)
- how to set up yum on the server side, for the more ambitious

just my $0.03 cdn.

rday