Re: Poor Yum User Download Experience

Joshua D. Drake 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

Yes, I clicked on direct downloads, and I assume that is what someone
would want if they wanted the RPMs directly, and not via Yum, which
seems reasonable.

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