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Trick: How to run your own yum repository |
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Friday, 23 July 2004 |
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Yum is a powerful tool that greatly improves package handling on RPM-based Linux distributions. This tutorial explains how to create a local yum repository, configure your machine to use this repository, and customise a yum RPM to automatically use this repository.
Package management has always been a sore point for Linux, and particularly for RPM-based distros. "Dependency hell" is the term commonly used for the pain involved in installing a piece of software with a package management utility. Read more at Linux.com |