Re: How to make yum seek alternative repository?

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 13:13 -0500, Matt England wrote:
How can I make yum seek an alternative repository? I've been looking at
it's man page and have yet to find anything.

Background:

My software development project wants to release .rpm packages via its own
yum repository (we don't yet know exactly how to set up a yum repo, but
we're assumign this is documented somewhere...and that we can make a repo
with *only* our project's .rpms and not have to server others...if not let
us know?).

However, I don't know how to tell our users to point their yum command to
our repos while still inheriting the capability of the "standard"
redhat/fedora yum repos for the package dependencies that we will have (eg,
libc, Boost libraries, etc).

Any suggestions? I'm hoping our users don't have to edit system config
files to do this. For starters, this is rather inconvenient and
cumbersome; also, this breaks the ability to support non-root installations
of software.

Thanks for any help,
-Matt


The repositores have started supplying installation rpms that set up the
repo data in the /etc/yum.repo.d directory. You need to have an
installation rpm for your repo, then tell your users to download kyum
from livna. This is a graphical tool that will allow them to target
repositories without having to edit any files at all. They only have to
click some radio buttons and then choose their packages to install.
Kyum will browse your repository and supply package information for all
your rpms as the user selects them.

You can see what it looks like here

http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=144215

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