On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Yin Qiu wrote: Have fun with your GSoC project!
I'll briefly talk about my understanding about the idea. In the spirit of "dividing the project into separate pieces", I suggest the final deliverables include: 1) a script to help repositories that reside on nfs or http servers to advertise their presence. Does this mean we shall add a new service type, say _yum._tcp, to zeroconf? 2) a plugin that, once enabled, automatically discovers published yum services and adds it to the pool. 3) modification to anaconda to incorporate automatic yum repo detection.
- Allow for checking with GPG, and make it the default to require it to ensure my machine does not start downloading evil packages in an evil network - anaconda last I checked (el5) was somewhat limited in what authentication it could do during install and what repos it would write in the yum.repos.d - it has to come from a 'release' package. Perhaps that announcing would really help. - discovering external far away repos would be nice (esp for europeans that don't have software patents and could use mp3, ecc, based package repos) - with DNSSEC, one could publish the GPG key for a repo in the DNS as a trust anchor to use. I am not sure if a dnssec validating resolver is available on install, but we are working on making it available on all installs. Paul _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
