On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Theresa Chen wrote: > That depends...on what the general audience. Do we know what the majority > consists of? Sys admins who wants to ditch up2date and reduce load for > Duke's server or regular joe with a small workstation at home who got > tired of installing each and individual dependency just to get one > package working? > > Just out of curiosity, do any of you know? just to clarify my thoughts on a yum HOWTO (for which, i might add, there seems to be no link from the yum page to rgb's howto), i'd like to see a doc along the lines of: - what is yum and how is it related to rpm? - what (in brief) does a yum repository look like, and how would one write a URL to one? (examples of a few repositories here) - how to use yum on the client side (including any config file stuff like /etc/yum.conf) - how to set up yum on the server side, for the more ambitious just my $0.03 cdn. rday
