I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Feb 14 02:40:13 UTC 2004


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:29:03PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> I'm curious how this is useful when there can be multiple repositories
> on any given server.

Put the path in DNS too or a defined short form

then its query fedora-2-test1.foobar.org txt

> Is there a good place to look for how the dns txt information is being
> more commonly used?

Rendezvous  (DNS-SD)
	http://www.zeroconf.org/Rendezvous/txtrecords.html

RFC1464 (overview)

DNS RBL (txt records explain why the block exists)

IPSEC OE (gives info to do keying)

SPF (anti spam)

HESIOD (authentication caching via dns txt)





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