On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 18:10 +0200, FlorianFesti wrote: > Hi! > > While thinking about a better UI for installing, viewing and removing > packages I came up with the idea of having a tool generating a kind of > %packages section as found in a kickstart file that would lead to > packages being installed as currently on the system. This format has the > advantage that it can even use groups if not all packages from that > group are installed as unneede packages can be excluded with > "-packagename". Fortunatedly this syntax is already understood by yum > which also allows to generate a yum command line. The goal is comming up > with a description of the packages installed on the system that is > significantly shorter than the package list itself. The program prints a > short statistic as last line. As it shows how well this "compression" > works I'd be interested in the result people are willing to share. > > Attached is the very first version of the tool. It does not yet take any > parameters and does only support one single format. Everything but the > very basic idea is still to discussion. My next steps would getting it > ready for inclusion into yum-utils. Suggestions about formats, cli > options, additional features are very welcome. > > If developers of GUI programs are interested in this functionality (this > was the use case I originally thought about) I'd love to hear about > suggestions or requests regarding the API. >
Neat - seems like a good yum-util. You may want to replace self.allpkgs = set(self.yum.rpmdb.getNamePkgList()) with self.allpkgs = set(pkg.name for pkg in packages) to avoid the deprecation warning -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
