Re: Poor Yum User Download Experience

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Back on the Yum download page there is a "Direct Download" section,
> which points to:
>
> https://public.commandprompt.com/projects/pgcore/wiki/Direct_download
>
> which shows:
>
> 8.4 - New release. Test before you upgrade.
>
> Which obviously is inaccurate because 8.4 has been out for many months now.

Oh, another problem. When you click on 8.4 above, you see:

[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 -

which doesn't make much sense to me, and there is no CentOS directory,
but the Centos noarch.rpm appears in the Redhat subdirectory too. I
don't know enough about RPMs to know if the subdirectory contents make
any sense. And maybe all this is fine.

The bottom line is I consider this RPM/Yum site to be an embarassment.
And the number of problems is so great that there is obviously a
systematic disregard for the user experience, which suggests that even
if all the problems I listed are fixed, new problems will regularly
resurface. This suggests we should be looking elsewhere for RPM/Yum
hosting.

Now, of course, if it is just me who thinks that, then I will just
forget about it.

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