[Users] distribute template packages with yum

[Gena Makhomed]

On 19.06.2015 15:49, Scott Dowdle wrote:

 > While yum does have a download only option
 > (and there is yumdownloader in the yum-utils package)...
 > yum really shouldn't be overloaded to be a file sync tool.

yum is package manager, not file sync tool.

 > yum understands repository metadata about rpm packages...
 > and I guess if all of the OS Templates were packaged as .rpm files
 > it might make sense but for the tiny convenience of overloading
 > a command it seems like a lot of work without much gain.

you don't need to change yum at all, so no overloading here.

 > I'm definitely against the idea.

why?

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Best regards,
  Gena