On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:08:48AM -0500, Aleksander Demko wrote: > > Idea: Should yum also use a /etc/yum.d/*.conf directory like structure > in addition to its current yum.conf file? Benefits: > - RH seems to be doing this to a lot in their config files > - applications/packagers may simply provide rpms representing their > repositories. eg: yum-yum, yum-freshrpms, yum-someapplication > - this way, you could have repositories of repositories/mirror sites > > Lesser idea: should gpgcheck=1 not be the default for base/updates, with > a nice error message if they're missing the key? Seems a little more > secure. All of this stuff already realized in our own 'branch' of yum, used with russian Linux distro (ASPLinux). You can see homepage at http://stuphead.asplinux.ru/yum/ (yes, it's in russian). Current state of this code you can see here: http://stuphead.asplinux.ru/yum/SRPMS/yum-1.1.1-1.9asp.src.rpm this version work fine with both 404/410/420 version of rpm, have /etc/yum.d/ directory, tool for maintain files in /etc/yum.d/ ( for example you can do 'yum-conf add "url of config file" as repository-name' and use it. This project bourn and developed cause we need to use _one_ version of yum for all our distro version (i mean version of rpmlib of cause). Also lots of code refactoring, support for http reget files, yum-mirror tool for mirroring repositories and lots of other stuff. Please don't think what yum in asplinux is a 'fork'. I just don't have enough time to make a good patch from asplinux yum to real version of yum made by seth (need to say thanks for great work, seth!). In any case - license on all this stuff - GPL and you can use both 'version' of yum, cause it absolutely compatible.
