> I'm extremely interested in this to. There are some packages out there > *cough*divx4linux*cough*flash plugin*cough* that are perfectly legal for > a user to download and use, but can be distributed by a third party. > well first things first - flash plugin is packaged in rpm format officially for macromedia - no work there at all :) > I have a shell script that can download source files listed in a src.rpm > (assuming url source) and put them in the SOURCES directory - it would > be great to integrate that with yum so that users can more easily get > binary packages for those system - w/o a distributor having to negotiate > redistribution rights. > > btw - I'm not using yum yet (other than client on my ydl box - which > doesn't do anything other than cvs server) but I've been lurking on the > list - and it looks like yum really is the best solution for rpm based > distributions to push updates and make new packages available. Thanks. Well if you have interest in a yum-build or something like that then I'm glad to hear what you come up with - I, unfortunately, don't have enough time to look into everything I think is cool. Believe me - if I got to implement (or hell, if I _could_ implement) everything I thought was a cool idea things would be very different ;) -sv
