On 8 Aug 2003, seth vidal wrote: > You and I both know that the moment you provide 'data' access the next > question will be: "yah, but could you do that for binaries? thanks". So you answer firmly but gently "no", right? Explain regretfully that rpm just doesn't work that way. > s/linux/the world/ > > I agree it would be neat. But there is bluesky and then there is > BLUESKY. > > I think this falls into the latter type. It's also not really a yum issue. First one has to build an actual rpm that can distribute data like this. I'm working on that. If I succeed and it isn't horribly ugly then we can talk about hacking yum so it has a mode to correspond to the usage with less blue in the sky. rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
