Re: Poor Yum User Download Experience

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 17:24, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 15:44 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> >     [DIR]   Parent Directory                 -
>> >     [DIR]   fedora/ 13-Apr-2010 14:19       -
>> >     [ ]     pgdg-centos-8.4-2.noarch.rpm    15-Mar-2010 11:51       4.1K
>> >     [ ]     pgdg-fedora-8.4-2.noarch.rpm    15-Mar-2010 11:35       4.1K
>> >     [ ]     pgdg-redhat-8.4-2.noarch.rpm    15-Mar-2010 11:34       4.1K
>> >     [DIR]   redhat/ 17-Mar-2010 13:36       -
>> >     [DIR]   repodata/       19-Apr-2010 16:24       -
>> >
>
>> Well, the point of Yum isn't the web interface; people are supposed to
>> get in via the yum tool.  This may all work a lot better from there.
>>
>> However, what's missing from that link is actual instructions on using
>> the Yum repo.
>>
>> In fact, I don't know what that particular interface even is displaying;
>> it's not the actual contents of Yum, that's for sure.  Here's the actual
>> contents:
>> http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/repoview/
>
> That looks like he clicked on the direct download links. However you are
> correct the proper interface is Yum, not the web.
>
> You really should never see yum.pgsqlrpms.org. You should see

Can we change that? ;) it would be much nicer if it said yum.pgsqlrpms.org...

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