On 7/22/05, Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Instead of a package, could repos make their details available via RSS > feeds? You would past an RSS URL into the GUI tool and it would pull > down the latest details. Ugh.. horrid. You are asking a gui that has to be run by root to scrape configs out of an rss feed. Can you even provide a signed payload that way? Seems to me you are just re-inventing the wheel here. Just pull down a package and install it. Advertising "package links" via rss feeds is a good idea... but encoding the actual configs into an rss feed is not a good way to do this. At the end of the day.. you are installing config files that really should be managed by the rpm system just like what the fedora-release package does right now in Core....which means installing updates via a package. We do it for fedora-release, we should encourage 3rd parties to use the same mechanism. rpm -V is a good thing.. lets not invent something that shortcircuits the ability to verify that the configs you have are really the configs you are expected to have. > something, they wouldn't have to roll and release a new package. The > GUI could check for repo updates daily, weekly, whatever. Yeah we could provide all of files from all packages via an rss feed instead of via rpms. I'm really not seeing the advantage of providing a new mechanism to drop configs into a system. Can't people just advertise links to rpms in the rss feed and have the gui scrape for packages to install? -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
