[Centos] External yum and apt Repositories and CentOS4
Michael Best
mbest at pendragon.org
Sat Feb 19 22:24:15 UTC 2005
seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 07:40 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>
>>Were looking to use yum 2.1's ability to store repository data
>>in /etc/yum.repos.d/ as a means of pushing updates to our mirrors list.
>>
>>As an added feature, we want to host third party repository config in
>>installable .rpm's into CentOS-Extras. So that enabling a new repository
>>becomes as easy as "yum install <repo name>". Eg. 'yum install repo-
>>dag'. Which would in turn drop the required repository information
>>into /etc/yum.repos.d/, set the enabled flag, import the required gpg-
>>key.
>
>
> contributory infringement.
? Infringement of what? Just curious, not sure what the concern is
exactly.
> We need to be concerned with linking to sites that host material that
> violates the DMCA. Providing repository files that point there is a
> concern, to say the least.
>
> Why don't we rethink this - esp for those of us who live in the US and
> could be prosecuted by this rule.
>
> -sv
But a valid concern for the USians ;)
-Mike
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