[Yum] Survey of Use

[Garrick Staples]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:28:50PM -0700, Garrick Staples alleged:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:21:50PM -0400, seth vidal alleged:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:38, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> > > Seth may have a better idea than anyone - but I'm not sure if he's ever
> > > done any type of survey of yum users.  Seth? :)
> > > 
> > > Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have a repository at home as well -
> > > it's much better to have the packages download while I sleep and then
> > > have them locally than having to wait while they download when I wanted
> > > them five minutes ago...
> > 
> > This  list is horribly biased, I'm sure, but what the heck:
> > 
> > Send messages regarding how you use yum. I did this a few months ago but
> > that was before the 'fedora uses yum' stuff and all the fun that comes
> > with that. :)
> 
> Well, let's see.  I use yum for updating and installing packages from my
> own mirror/repo (mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/{redhat,mandrake}),
> and for handling my own packages (mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/hpc
> and polop.usc.edu/pub/rpms).  I don't use any 3rd party repos like
> fresh or at.

Since everyone else is naming names... I'm using yum to install and
maintain a 756 node research computing cluster at USC, www.usc.edu/hpcc/
and a few workstations here in the admin group.

Yum is specifically used to install a base set of packages in a RH
kickstart script, and to maintain updates.  Since all machines maintain
the exact same list of packages, I'm not using any of the fancy group
support in yum.

I repackage yum for myself, the only change being to disable the cronjob
and adding my own config file.