Some thoughts about yum and repositories

[Markku Kolkka]

D. D. Brierton kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 28. 
lokakuuta 2004 22:34):
> That sounds interesting. Is that functionality proposed or
> actually available in the latest yum?

It's in the current Rawhide/development version, and it will be 
in FC3.

> Would this noarch repo 
> rpm be automatically downloaded and installed by yum from some
> simpler incantation, like "yum subscribe rpm.livna.org" or do
> you have to manually go and find it and install it by hand?

If the repository makes such a rpm, it can be installed by the 
usual "yum install" way. Maybe there should be a standard for 
naming them, e.g. "repo-livna-<version>-noarch.rpm". The GPG key  
could be included in the same rpm.

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