On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:33AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > I think the best way for other packaging sites to make their stuff > > available, trivially, for yum would be to make a package that provides > > their .repo file. > > > > then users can: > > wget url://to/that/rpm > > yum install /that/rpm > > Time to repeat the six year old proposal originally internally and extenrally > since. > > Define a mime type for a repository description file and its format. Add it > with a helper app for mozilla/konqueror/firefox. > > At that point you can click on a "subscribe to DAG" button on a web page and > let the helper do the work (via consolehelper to do the "root password" bit) Coincidentally, Gustavo designed smart to allow this: smart channel --add http://some.url/mychannel.txt smart channel --add mychannel.txt It would be nice to have a special content-type/extension for this that is standardized between different package managers. The syntax for such a channel definition is pretty straightforward: ### URL: http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ [dag] name = RPMforge.net: Various packages from Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core 3 (i386) baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag type = rpm-md priority = 10 Would be nice if this could be established. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
