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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________