On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Lee W wrote:
> Back to the point has anyone found / thought of implementing
> a kind of Enterprise level YUM with the same sort of
> manageability of RHN. I looked at it myself but felt it
> would involve too much of a rewrite to the YUM clients to
> do.
I published the necessary hooks to do so two years on the yum
mailing list, and sell services based on this already. I know
of another list member who does this as well.
The include functionality for remote yum.conf entries was a
result of some needs I had in this area, which seth kindly
added; I also use variants of that code at the
anaconda/kickstart install time for new host sccessionsing,
and rule based (database driven) config customization
> Does YUM even support any kind of authentication HTTP or FTP?
yes
-- Russ Herrold
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