Re: Yum NFS support

Matthew Miller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:40:12AM +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> that has been discussed probably before but I just saw the BZ:
> https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=678
> What is the status of NFS support for yum ?
> I was thinking of implementing this with a plugin that will detect a 
> nfs:// url, mount the repository to a temporary directory and replace 
> the url with file:// one. Then proceed as usual and unmount.
> However I can't find a way to change the repo url in a plugin because 
> the parser will barf on nfs:// url.
> Any thoughts on the topic?

Can't you just use file:// on an automounted nfs filesystem?

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