Arjun Roy wrote:
Howdy - my name's Arjun Roy, and this is my first time posting on this
list.
I'm an undergraduate cs student, and am interested in yum (among various
other things).
Alright, with that out of the way, I'd like to submit a small plugin for
yum. It's a tiny
history plugin - it serializes the record of a yum transaction after the
transaction completes,
and can pretty print the record on demand.
For example:
yum install AllegroOgg --note 'installed allegroOgg'
This will install allegroogg and the dependencies, and save the
results to an xml file in a place
specified by the plugin conf file (default /var/lib/yum/history/).
yum history --date=Jan-26-2008
This will tell you what happened on the 26th of Jan 2008. So if we
installed AllegroOgg on that day,
it will tell you.
My coding style might be a bit out of whack, I might have done some
kooky things to get it to work, (though
I like to think that I didn't) so feel free to flame it / critique it /
submit feature requests. Hope it is useful to
somebody.
On an unrelated note, conduit.registerCommand needs more documentation.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
I was too lazy to make a script, but it is easy.
1. Copy history.conf to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d
2. Copy history.py to /usr/lib/yum/yum-plugins
3. mkdir /var/lib/yum/history
Make sure the directory in step3 matches the directory specified in
history.conf, and
also make sure the directory specified in history.conf ends with a '/'.
Thanks,
-Arjun Roy
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Look like a cool plugin, we are currently working on adding a kind of
database to yum base to store extra information about the transaction,
not contained in the rpm db.
The is some good ideas in your plugin there can be used in the base
implementation, when the base infrastructure for adding extra
information to installed packages is in place, then you plugin can be
changed to use the common infrastructure, and will be a good candidate
to be added to yum-util.
Best regards,
Tim
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