[Biodevelopers] Bioinformatics Yum Repo?

[Dan Bolser]

Joe Landman wrote:
> 
> 
> Dan Bolser wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for the basic question, but I would like to poll the list for 
>> information on Yum Repos. Which do you use?, which do you like? what 
>> should be added? and where? etc. etc. I was tempted to crosspost to 
>> the bioclusters list, but I will hold off doing that to see if I hit 
>> the bulls-eye here ;-)
>>
>> The ones I know about are 'BioLinux' and the stuff produced by Joe 
>> Landman (is he on this list?), and I just found via Google 'BIOrpms' 
>> and 'BIOPACKAGES.NET';
> 
> 
> I am on list.  I haven't put up yum repos for our bits yet.  Is there 
> interest?  Not hard if there is, just haven't done it yet.
> 
> When we release our accelerated HMMer in short order I presume people 
> will just want to "yum install hmmer" or something like that?
> 
> We have put up specialty packages for a few end users/customers, that 
> might have bearing to a wider audience as well.  Please let me know if 
> people prefer yum to pulling them down and installing them.


The nicest thing about Yum is that it searches for (and where possible 
installs) dependencies. For this reason it is very convenient to just 
'Yum' something. Also it allows you to search various repos with 
wildcards, so people can easily see 'what is out there' with regard to 
their problem.