Re: Using YUM to manage S/W distros other than linux

Jim Wildman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, David Simas wrote:

>>> multi-site s/w release management; s/w meaning anything a developer
>>> releases, perl, compiled exes, compiled libraries, documentation, etc.
>>
>> if the os is managed by rpm all of the above are possible.
>
> And for those that aren't, you should be able to use OpenPKG
> (http://www.openpkg.org) with YUM.
>

I would also highly recommend Dag's mrepo program for mirroring
repositories, etc.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/

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