After the Revolution. When Martha Ballard began her diary in 1785, the Revolutionary War had been over for just a year. The states, still a confederation and almost entirely agrarian, had a total population of under 4 million.
The Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a libre and open-source command-line package-management utility for computers running the GNU/Linux operating system using the RPM Package Manager. Though YUM has a command-line interface, several other tools provide graphical user interfaces to YUM functionality.
How to setup your own package repository. Sometimes you'll find you need to be able to collect a bunch of rpm packages you have together in one place and you want to make them available to your systems running yum. It is pretty easy to do.n the end you should have a directory named /srv/my/repo/repodata with at least 4 files in it. Maybe more. 1  To make this repository known to yum you need to add a .repo file to your yum configuration. 2  On the systems where you want to use this repo you need to make a new file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ .