On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:42, Robert G. Brown wrote: > An observation. For the convenience of those unfamiliar with my style, > a > > <summary> > > I think yum could use: > > a) At least two authentication mechanisms; userid/passwords as > discussed and another that uses a keypair or cookie assigned by the > repository manager and that could be read out of a 600 file e.g. > /etc/yum.key or $HOME/.yum.key. This latter would permit nightly > updates from anywhere independent of source IP address in an automated > script on a user-specific and user-logging way without needing expect or > user presence. - this not impossible - the user:pass stuff works now. the keys are not that hard, really. > b) A fully userspace mode, that uses rpm's --relocate feature to > install rpm's built to be relocatable into paths in the user's > personally writeable space. This latter would enable yum to be used by > vendors to distribute and update valuable data to ordinary users -- > together with a) in a controlled and accountable way. > 1. --relocate is broken. 2. most pkgs will break for it even if they were built right 3. this is crackrock. -sv
