Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 30 19:11:10 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:51 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On 07/30/2010 11:49 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 21:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >> On 07/30/2010 09:08 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > >>> in yum-utils upstream you can do:
> > >>>
> > >>> yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://baseurl/some/place
> > >>>
> > >>> or
> > >>> yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://path/to/some/foo.repo
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> either will add the repo you want.
> > >>
> > >> That's almost what I want.  Can we add a default shortcut for
> > >> repos.fedorapeople.org?   So perhaps it can be
> > >>
> > >> yum-config-manager  --add-repo fp:spot/chromium
> > >>
> > > 
> > > umm. I dunno. I'll have to think about that one. That feels awfully
> > > dodgy to be in an upstream project's code.
> > 
> > Perhaps a standard config file for "repo aliases" could be used, then
> > Fedora could provide that config file with aliases for "fp", "remi", and
> > other known third party repos. (Note: I don't think we would ever be
> > able to include "rpmfusion" in that list, sadly.)
> 
> That's what I was thinking - just not sure how much use it will be.

So here's the question:

will someone often be doing:
yum-config-manager --add-repo=fp:spot/chromium

or will they more likely do:
yum-config-manager --add-repo=<paste-url-to-repofile-from-web-browser>

b/c it sure feels like the latter is more common.

-sv




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