Replacing Apt with Yum.. SSH:// Support?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed May 25 22:52:32 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:13:58PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
> I am currently using apt to distribute updates to my servers.  I run one
> central repository where my servers use ssh to attach to it and get
> updates.  Due to security-related political issues, ssh is the only way
> I can easily do updates for about 2/3 of my servers.
> Can I use ssh:// or sftp:// as the protocol in the yum.repos.d/*repo
> files or would I have to resort to ssh tunneling tricks?  Does anyone
> know if this is a planned feature for the future?

I think you'll have to do tunneling tricks. No chance of them allowing
https?

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