Re: Feature request ... or How to.

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Les Mikesell <[email protected]> writes:

> I've always thought this was a serious omission in all of the package
> managers and that it would be really useful to be able to take any
> arbitrary machine that might have been carefully tuned for a specific
> purpose and 'publish' its package list.   Then anyone else who wanted
> a similar setup could tell his package manager to duplicate it without
> having to repeat the work of researching and choosing the package
> list. It would be even better if you could 'subscribe' to a published
> list and track the exact versions installed on the master copy so you
> wouldn't do updates until you knew someone had tested the new version
> combinations already.

 The versionlock plugin allows you to specify a remote URL as the
"configuration", although there is currently no caching there.

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James Antill -- [email protected]
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