[Yum] Re: yum-pull (current state), universal repository layout

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, William Stearns wrote:

> 	Dag, thanks for mentioning yam 
> (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/).  I took a look at it; it looks 
> like the overall goal of providing local repositories is the same, but 
> your tool and mine differ in what we provide to some degree.  Yours 
> supports PXE and network booting, mine doesn't.  I have a sense I support 
> more repositories.  We support different core OS's.

Well, that last bit can be changed after I've taken a look at yum-pull :)


> 	I think it's good both are available for users with different 
> needs.

Sure, I'll link to yours when I update the website.

 
> 	Any feedback about this?  I'd love to have a universal layout we 
> all agree on someday - wouldn't it save bandwidth on all of us if we came 
> up with a standard layout that was accessible via round robin dns?  Is 
> that what ayo was supposed to do?

Hmm, the layout does not include Apt, is that intentional ?

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