=========================================== I thought the yum tutorial was pretty good - I'd give it 8/10 . The following remarks are meant as comments rather than criticism. 0. I found the general approach slightly over-formal even perhaps a tiny bit unfriendly. But that is just a personal view. I would have put the "Revision history" as a link, perhaps just leaving the date of the latest revision, and the author or authors. 1. As far as I can see, there are three standard fedora yum repositories: fedora base (covering the rpms on the distribution CDs), fedora update and fedora extras. If that is correct, I suggest it should be said clearly, as postings suggest some confusion over this. 2. I think a tutorial should concentrate on the ways in which an application is most often used. In the case of yum, I imagine 95% of the usage is covered by "yum update" and "yum install". I would have put these first - perhaps right at the beginning - and put other variants in later sections, eg "Package groups". 3. I would have started by discussing the entries in /etc/yum.repos.d/ , perhaps with model entries for the 3 standard repositories. That would enable people to get started as quickly as possible. 4. I definitely would omit the "su -c '...'" in the examples, and just say you have to run yum as superuser, perhaps once mentioning sudo and "su -c". 5. In case people are using sudo or su, perhaps it should be mentioned that eg * should be given as \* in yum search, etc. 6. When discussing "yum clean" it should be explained what disadvantages if any this may have. You say that cached rpms "may be re-used"; what exactly does this mean? 7. I think a brief description of how yum works - eg what is meant by "metadata" and where it is stored - would be useful. I'd add a few words about rmp headers as well. 8. A few words on what to do about yum errors would be very useful, perhaps as a FAQ. 9. I would have suggested adding non-standard repositories to /etc/yum.repos.d/ with enabled=0 using yum with enablerepo=... when desired. 10. I think yum GPG keys cause more confusion than you realise. I would have mentioned the possibility of turning off key-checking in case one cannot find the key - of course as a second-best solution. =========================================== -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
