XFree86 available via yum

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote:

>> I truely have no idea what this has to do with me providing 
>> XFree86 via FTP and yum via FTP.
>
>I think they want http access to the ftp site. Some one
>mentioned better download speed with http. It's probably a
>configuration/firewall issue on their end though. But they want
>to use an http URL for yum since it's faster for them currently.

Ah.  Well, people.redhat.com is a place where employees are able 
to put whatever they like in either ftp and/or http.  You'd have 
to convince all employees individually to reconstruct their 
entire web/ftp space to be the same.  Good luck.  ;o)

The only way it could be universally relied upon would be if it 
was enforced administratively that way.   I dunno about other 
employees, but if our infrastructure was changed in any dramatic 
way, I'd just move my ftp/http stuff to a server like 
freedesktop.org or www.linux.org.uk ;o)


>I think the p.rh.c sould be setup with files available both
>ways. Some people only have http access (Arjan for one), and I
>prefer FTP (like you). I'll forget who as which setup, FTP to
>p.rh.c and see nothing, only to find out later that it was
>there, but http only.

If it requires zero effort on my end, and no modifications to any 
of my bash scripts, I wouldn't mind.  If I have to hack/debug 
scripts to deal with changes, I'd change them once - to point to 
a server under my own control that I know wont change.  ;o)



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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat