Yum repositories

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

But idealy, in the end, yum should be "the" tool - with some GUI
frontend (something like synaptic, please :) ), right? And then, up2date
should be obsoleted?

man, 04.10.2004 kl. 16.34 skrev seth vidal:
> Your questions grow in generality.
> > This is kind of annoying - we have two package install/update tools that
> > use the same underlying mechanisms but have different configs.  Not only
> > that, but they are not configured to operate the same out of the box.
> 
> I implemented mirrorlist so yum could play nice with the up2date
> mirrorlists.
> > If up2date is configured to use mirrors by default, shouldn't yum be
> > configured that way as well?  If there's a good reason NOT to configure
> > yum that way, shouldn't that reason apply to up2date as well?
> 
>  I don't really _like_ mirrorlists. The mirrorlists aren't gpg signed.
> So if someone compromised the list file and put in what they wanted,
> they could seriously screw up some people. Especially people not gpg
> checking by default - and on fc-devel that would be EVERYONE.
> 
> I'd be fine with dumping all items and going with a common configuration
> location for up2date/yum/etc, but I'd want it to be a common format that
> we've all agreed on.
> 
> 
> > Why do we need both up2date and yum?
> 
> they do different things - and frankly - they're both useful for
> catching each-other's bugs.
> -sv
> 
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