github can be used as yum repo

[Martin Langhoff]

This might be of interest. OLPC has for a long time maintained sizable git
repos to support OOB.

For an unrelated project, I have just tested that the same thing can be
achieved with github.

For example, this repo:

  https://github.com/martin-langhoff/testfoo

can be used as a yum repo with this kind of url:

  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martin-langhoff/testfoo/master/

note that the base URL returns 400, yum does not fetch 'index' pages from a
repo, it will request:


https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martin-langhoff/testfoo/master/repodata/repomd.xml

cheers,


m
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