[Gllug] rpms is there an easier way?

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Mon Jun 17 14:14:16 UTC 2002


On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:01:53PM +0100, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:50:32PM +0100, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > If you sign up for the Red Hat Network (one box free per sign up) you 
> > can get round these problems.
> 
> I can see the attraction for Red Hat of this closed commercial solution,
> but it's not at all satisfactory from my point of view.  You can't pick
> your own repositories or blend in your own local archives of tailored
> versions of packages and the back-end is closed source.

Umm, it may be but there is a gpl clone which works well.

Doesn't do multiple repositories on the client, but is SSL certificate
based and you can have multiple repositories on the server (eg rawhide,
own brew rpms, falsehope, etc).


http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/

Paul


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