Replacing Apt with Yum.. SSH:// Support?

Leonard Isham leonard.isham at gmail.com
Thu May 26 02:14:12 UTC 2005


On 5/25/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:13:58PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
> > I am currently using apt to distribute updates to my servers.  I run one
> > central repository where my servers use ssh to attach to it and get
> > updates.  Due to security-related political issues, ssh is the only way
> > I can easily do updates for about 2/3 of my servers.
> > Can I use ssh:// or sftp:// as the protocol in the yum.repos.d/*repo
> > files or would I have to resort to ssh tunneling tricks?  Does anyone
> > know if this is a planned feature for the future?
> 
> I think you'll have to do tunneling tricks. No chance of them allowing
> https?

I don't think yum supports https, but what about using yam yo make a
local repository and then you can use yum, up2date or apt locally.

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.




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