yum [was: Re: ftp site]

[Bill Fink]

On Tue Mar 4 2003, Dan Burcaw wrote:

> > Yup.  metalab/ibiblio is the offical ftp site for YDL.  These machiens are 
> > mirrored around the globe and make finding a mirror easy.  Probably a lot 
> > easier than being mirrored by sourceforge.  And really better than the 
> > crappy new RHN do-a-survey-every-60-days-for-crappy-access-to-updates 
> > system.
> > 
> > I'm pushing my campus to move to yum.  
> 
> Incidentally, the next version of YDL will support both apt-get and yum
> out of box. I like yum :-)

More good news!  I had investigated yum at one point and it looked
cool and simpler to use than apt-get, but since I didn't know of any
public YDL yum servers, I never did anything with it.

						-Bill