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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