RE: Installing Packages with Proxy

[Seth Vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> This is great. Though I was really hoping to have something so another program need not run on server so that it is easier to deliver to customer. (we also have option so user can use his own sevrer.) That solution might be to have the headers just exist as separate files beforehand and just pick them up.
> Please let me know when you post your program.

nothing runs on the server other than once or each time you update your 
distribution tree.

The "Server side" is just an http or ftp server. I think I could probably 
figure out a way to make it work with local files too.

its all in python and I'm lifted a lot of code from anaconda and from 
the up2date client. 

The original yup was written by the people at yellowdog linux. Jeremy 
Katz, now of red hat and anaconda fame, rewrote a lot of yup but it still 
relied on their own index of each rpms' attributes.

Jeremy and Hollis Blanchard came up with the idea of pulling out the 
headers and just passing those around in yup. Both of them went on to 
other things but I saw the idea, talked to Jeremy about the implementation 
and started working on it.

its really quite straightforward.

I will post here when there is something like a release :)

-sv