On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 01:48 +0800, Yin Qiu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Yin from China. As the subject line says, I'd like to apply for the > summer project of adding automatic repo discovery for yum. I've personally > contacted Roland McGrath, who is supposed to be the mentor for this project, > and he told me to discuss this with the community. I don't have idea which > mailing list is best suitable for this discussion, so I'm sorry for my > cross-posting. > > I'll briefly talk about my understanding about the idea. In the spirit of > "dividing the project into separate pieces", I suggest the final deliverables > include: > > 1) a script to help repositories that reside on nfs or http servers to > advertise their presence. Does this mean we shall add a new service type, say > _yum._tcp, to zeroconf? > 2) a plugin that, once enabled, automatically discovers published yum > services and adds it to the pool. > 3) modification to anaconda to incorporate automatic yum repo detection. > > Any comments? Thanks. >
An avahi plugin already exists: http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/avahi/ James wrote it a couple of years back. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
