On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:11 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 4/17/06, Joost Soeterbroek <fedora(a)soeterbroek.com> wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> > Now, Google has just announced the Summer of Code 2006. Although the Fedora
> > Project has not yet applied to participate this year, I suspect we are likely
> > to do so. However, our Fedora Bounties list is now quite short. We need
> > fresh ideas. If there are any projects that you would like to see, please
> > add them to the FedoraBounties page. These can include ideas that you may
> > have had but don't have time to work on, problems that you have
encountered
> > that need attention, or tools you really wish we had.
>
> idea: YUM Fedora internal update server ('reposerver')
>
> How about a project for tools/utilities to create, maintain
> fedora/custom yum repositories behind the corporate firewall.
>
> - local mirror for fedora repositories (core, extras etc.)
> - Custom repos
> - Ability to merge repos to create custom, tested 'releases' (read:
>
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/lpt/a/5625)
>
> Regards,
>
> Joost Soeterbroek
Yam already (supposedly) does this.
It does some of that, but not all; there's some functionality that would
be useful around provisioning systems that's related to yam, such as
maintaining local ks trees and better/easier maintenance of pxe boot
infrastructure.
David