On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:43, Ed Brown wrote: > It doesn't help with the issues I raised at all: now I'd be faced with > maintaining 5 yum.conf files, 2 normalstartup.conf files, and about 20 > repoX.conf files. > > It would be *SO* much simpler for me to be able to call yum something > like this: > > yum --policy newest --base ftp://server/repo1dir install foo > Or: > yum --policy last --base ftp://server/repo1dir --server \ > ftp://server/repo2dir install bar Perhaps you can implement a http server that accepts yum -c http://confserver.lan/yumconf.cgi?repo="myrepo1.lan";policy="newest"; Regards, Enrique
