On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 14:33 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Matt England wrote: > > My software development project wants to release .rpm packages via > > its own yum repository (we don't yet know exactly how to set up a > > yum repo, but we're assumign this is documented somewhere...and that > > we can make a repo with *only* our project's .rpms and not have to > > server others...if not let us know?). > > > > However, I don't know how to tell our users to point their yum > > command to our repos while still inheriting the capability of the > > "standard" redhat/fedora yum repos for the package dependencies that > > we will have (eg, libc, Boost libraries, etc). > > Take a look at how repos like Livna handle this. They create a > release rpm which contains the proper .repo file. Users just install > this and the repo is ready to go. Either create an rpm file that users can do a quick rpm install with, or send them a copy of the .repo file to copy to their /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Once they have that (it needs to be enabled as well), and do a yum install or upgrade pacakage, it will check for your package as well as the main Fedora repos for any dependencies and automatically install them. Mike
