On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:51 -0500, jharnish(a)ci.grand-rapids.mi.us wrote:
Why can't there be a virtual yum repo?
IE
[Third Party]
flash-plugin...rpm ->
http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/RPMS.macromedia/flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i38...
vmware-player...rpm ->
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i...
...etc
This way you are not redistributing it but you are pointing to the original at the
vendor's location. Gentoo does something similar but they embed a script that pulls
the tarball down and installs it on the user's machine without intervention.
This probably needs to go to the Yum group.
contributory infringement. Read up on it. :)
-sv