On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:57 -0800, karsten wrote: >Hello Seth, > >I got a weird wish: > >How about a "message of the day" function for a repository? > >Let me elaborate a bit on the reasoning.... >I use yum for a number of update functions, but I also use yum for >development purposes. Ex: I want to set myth-tv up, but I want to know >what packages are really needed, so I start off with a bare FC2 or FC3. >Then I create a new repository and start filling it up as the myth >packages require. >Just an example - but...... > >Somebody (actually quite a few) apparently found this out (how is still >a mystery or maybe a myth) and suddenly my poor 800/128kbps DSL line is >swamped 24/7. >Which is understandable, but I would like to tell these people that >really - this is nowhere near the bandwidth they need, please go to >somwhere.else.com where a mirror has been put up. Just to make my >private line available for other things than just minumum email. > >So that is what I would like a message of the day for. Info - not swearing. 1. it's a slippery slope in terms of what you include in such a message 2. it'd be better to include a generic 'repository info url' in the repodata that could be used for any/all information. -sv
