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Re: NFS vs. HTTP



On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:22, Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:32, Jim Wildman wrote:
> > wget...of course.  Hadn't thought of that.  You just converted me.
> > 
> And if its rpms you are copying over (as I've seen many times), you
> don't even have to do that... 'rpm -Uvh http://someserver/some.rpm'
> works just fine...  If you have a bunch of stuff to install, rpm can
> even do globbing over ftp: 'rpm -Uvh ftp://someserver/*.rpm'
> 


oh don't do globbing, you're just asking for trouble.

<shameless plug>
i've found for installs for %post I use yum -
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/
</shameless plug>

It communicates over http or ftp pretty well and can let you  get
updates or what not in %post and takes multiple things to be installed
on the commandline w/globbing from it's available pkgs included :)

-sv

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