Re: Poor Yum User Download Experience

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

https://public.commandprompt.com/projects/pgcore

or

https://public.commandprompt.com/projects/pgcore/wiki

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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