Re: Adding programs

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadf u washington edu>]

shane stixrud org wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, John Haxby wrote:
>
> > Having said that, the system-config-packages thing should work -- it 
> > has a parameter to point it to a directory full of ISO images 
> > (--isodir).   That isn't your only choice though.   
> > system-config-packages is a bit limited though for my liking.   My 
> > preferred solution, at least the last time I did it, was to mount the 
> > ISO images (using -o loop) and create a yum archive. up2date knows 
> > about yum archives but I don't recall whether it preferred RHN or yum 
> > for local packages -- I installed a version of yum as well.
>
>
> Personally I wish they would add the ability to grab packages via a HTTP 
> URL.  ISO and NFS are all well and good, but adding HTTP would be much 
> cleaner in my opinion.


That's what yum is.