Charlie,
I had a look at yum and it seems a bit much. Seeing as though Stephen has already implemented his "rpm update checker" into his very popular update-system rpm, all we really need to know is if we can add multiple sites to check and it will do a very basic job.
I do see that yum would probably do a more efficient job as it checks the headers, plus the tree structure of contribs.org would have to be changed so that all the rpm's live in one directory.
I asked Jeff (owner of contribs.org) what he though about it and got this reply:
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Coleman
To: 'Cyrus Bharda'
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 12:18 AM
Subject: RE: "Blades" type update for unsupported sme
Hi Cyrus,
It does look interesting. We would be glad to host the site, but right now our we're not in a position to spend much time on the development.
If you and Stephen or someone else can get the srcipting running, I would be glad to put it up on contribs.
-jeff
So now all we really need to do is to ask Stephen to edit this part of his rpm so we can add in sites and create the txt file on contribs.org. The whenever a developer uploads to it, they could all have a txt file in their directory and they will have to keep it updated, that way it doesn't fall down to contribs.org maintaining the file, the developers are responsible for their own txt files that should have the filenames of the latest versions of their own rpm's?
It really does sound too simple. Also then we can add those developers who still have not moved their rpm's over from the ftp.e-smith.org contribs site. Basically then you could really included any developer on any site, just as long as he creates and maintains his txt file and you add it to the list to check.
So Stephen, what do you think, is it possible?
Thanks,
Cyrus Bharda
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