Re: Yum NFS support

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:40 +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Can't you just use file:// on an automounted nfs filesystem?
> 
> Of course you can, but you need to configure automount first.
> I am looking for a transparent way to use nfs with yum (even if yum has 
> to configure automount itself), something that will be fully handled by 
> yum and will require only configuring repositories.

nfs:// can't pass enough information to be helpful. you'd need to pass
mount location, user/group to mount as, etc. We already have tools that
help you do this in the shape of automount, adding support into yum to
do this just seems wrong.

Can you think of any other tool that does this?

-sv