Re: support for private repo on AWS S3

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Jeff Enderwick wrote:

> Thanks! It is seeming like nobody has added the AWS Auth support to yum (yet). The appealing aspect of just using S3
> (rather than having to have a server instance doing SSL+HTTP Basic/Digest) is that S3 is a REST-based storage cloud. You
> could just plop the rpms and metadata in the S3 bucket and be done; S3 would just serve it for you - almost zero config
> required!
> Yum seems to be an ideal tool for the EC2 environment. Perhaps I will add the AWS support if I find the free time -
> thanks :-).

Look at yum-rhn-plugin in rhel5 and replace the RhnRepo class with an AWS 
auth class - or get curl to handle it upstream. plugins welcome - patches 
too, if they aren't grotty.

-sv