Re: Replacing Apt with Yum.. SSH:// Support?

From: Leonard Isham (leonard.isham_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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    On 5/25/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
    > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:13:58PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
    > > I am currently using apt to distribute updates to my servers. I run one
    > > central repository where my servers use ssh to attach to it and get
    > > updates. Due to security-related political issues, ssh is the only way
    > > I can easily do updates for about 2/3 of my servers.
    > > Can I use ssh:// or sftp:// as the protocol in the yum.repos.d/*repo
    > > files or would I have to resort to ssh tunneling tricks? Does anyone
    > > know if this is a planned feature for the future?
    >
    > I think you'll have to do tunneling tricks. No chance of them allowing
    > https?

    I don't think yum supports https, but what about using yam yo make a
    local repository and then you can use yum, up2date or apt locally. 

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Leonard Isham, CISSP 
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