On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 22:07 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 1. supporting gpg/x509 signatures detached from repomd.xml on each repo > > - so we can check the content for validity > > Sounds like a good thing to have > > > 2. yum-util system-sync - to make two systems more or less identical > > pkg-wise to each other (maybe also spit out a %packages section to a > > ks.cfg, too) > > Not entirely sure how useful this really is since configuration is also > a huge part of systems being identical, but meh.
I've been asked for it quite a bit and while i've told folks - no no - just use kickstart the number of folks who don't want to do that is oddly larger than I would expect. Mostly folks afraid of messing with the 'other stuff' on a machine their not familiar with, probably. > > 3. taking the 'tolerant' config option in yum and using it to implement > > what the --skip-broken plugin does (more or less) but internal to yum > > Lots of people seem to want this. I'm not sure I'm sold on it since I'd > really rather stop the problems before they get to users. But at the > same time, we can't really do that for all combinations of repos I > guess. The tricky thing will be doing this in a way that can work > nicely with pirut, yumex, etc Well we should be able to step around conflicts a bit easier in the future, I think. Unresolveable deps shouldn't be impossible, either. I think it's just a matter of making sure we work on the error/results codes well so pirut,yumex,etc can report things quasi-sensibly. Alternatively, we can just shove it into the logs :) > > 5. yum-gate - take the code that rnorwood posted and maybe work on > > making it more releasable for folks to use as an authenticated yum repo. > > Alternatively, look at one of the other system-config-mgmt tools to work > > for that. > > Yeah, it'd be nice to get something good here. I think that there are > likely a lot of people out there who'd jump on it if we put out an easy > way of doing it I like what tim just posted of ssl client certs. That makes what yum-gate does pretty simple. If you combined the client certs with the yumvars-redefintion we added in 3.1.7 via postconfig hook then you could do custom repos with authentication. That handles a good portion of yum-gate - though we could definitely make it simpler to implement w/some docs. > > 6. YumBase.install() has a pattern=pkgglob kwarg it takes, remove() and > > update() don't. I want to fix that. If for no other reason than to make > > the yum cli code simpler. > > That's just silliness ;-) I talk w/the crazy! -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
