Jon Peatfield wrote:
> I hope people don't mind me asking a couple of possibly (very) dumb 
> questions...
> 
> I was just looking on TUV's errata webpage for 5Server and 5Client 
> (strangely different set of packages I see), and wondered where their 
> update SRPMS live now.
> 
> The original (release) versions are on their ftp site as before under:
> 
>    /pub/..../linux/enterprise/
> 
> e.g. 5Server/en/os/SRPMS/ etc
> 
> but the updates directory is mising any references to version 5
> 
>    /pub/..../linux/updates/enterprise/
> 
> I ask 'cos I occasionally look through the changes for updates which 
> arn't security-related errata...
> 

They are just putting them all in the

   /pub/..../linux/enterprise/

directory.  So in the one directory, you get the original src.rpm's, and 
all the updates too.
We'll be doing that too, we'll just have scientific/5x/SRPMS/vendor/

> And another possibly even sillier question.
> 
> Is there a good (or bad) way to point yum at a repo which is available 
> by rsync?  ie having the baseurl of rsync://... or similar?  As far as I 
> can see yum only directly supports 'http', 'ftp', 'file', 'https' 
> methods.  I suppose that the rsync protocol is a but tedious for yum to 
> have to directly support and calling external code would probably be 
> ugly and possibly dangerous...  Is this the kind of thing which could be 
> added to yum with a plugin or would that not be easy?
> 

The first question is ... why?
rsync is a protocol that makes it easy to continue to keep two different 
area's in sync, so the next time you only have to transfer a little.
yum already does that through it's normal protocols.
If you really want it, then send it on to the yum development list.

Troy
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