[Yum] About Yum Server setup question

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:53 +0800, Jeffrey Hsiang wrote:
> Hi, all , 
> 
> We try to setup the yum server on windows server.(IIS –Internet
> Information Services) . After copy the rpm files and respodata folder
> to this IIS and we found it is OK to connect it with yum client. 
> 
> However, we are worrying if there is any potential risk if we don’t
> use Linux OS to set up the yum server. 
> 
> Does anyone have similar experience ? Or in theory , we should not use
> this way to set up the yum server? 

The server can pretty much be any web server, ftp server or otherwise
available fileserver.


So if everything is working on IIS that's fine.

I would encourage you to not use closed source software in general,
though.  It is not good for the world.

-sv