RPMs

[Sean Egan]

Luke's already said hosting downloads on pidgin.im is not possible.

On 3/25/07, Kevin M Stange <kevin at simguy.net> wrote:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:33 -0500, Kevin M Stange wrote:
> >> Are we going to be hosting the downloads at pidgin.im or keeping them on
> >> sourceforge?  If pidgin.im, it's trivial to create yum repositories
> >> using the createrepo tool, so there's no real reason not to.
> >
> > If we run a yum repository, anyone that sets it up will hit our server
> > every time they run yum, right? Do we want that?
> >
>
> This is true, but yum checks the XML file to see if it's changed.  If it
> is, it downloads a new version, and decides whether any of the new
> packages need to be installed.  If not, the transfer traffic is quite
> insignificant.
>
> Kevin
>
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