On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 12:55 -0700, James Pearson wrote: > Hi. I administrate some CentOS 5 (and, hopefully soon, CentOS 6) machines, > and I'd like to have lots of lovely color output from yum. I see from the > manpages that there are some color options currently, but I'd like to have > it be more extensive. > > First question: should I go about hacking on yum proper, or make a yum > plugin? I was guessing the former, since color options already exist, but > I wanted to make sure this was a good path. Of concern is also ease of > getting any changes I make into the yum on my machines - I'm ok doing some > backporting, as long as things haven't changed significantly.
Adding more colour options would very likely be non-trivial to do in a plugin, so just add a patch to core yum and post. You might want to come by #yum or post here about your idea first though. > Secondly: how do you all handle development environments? I cloned down > the yum repo yesterday to play around with it, but I can't get it to run on > the system python because it uses library calls[0] not available in 2.4. I > can't use 2.6 because something requires the rpm library, which is > installed on my system (in the 2.4 path), but not otherwise available for > installation. Also, the EPEL virtualenv doesn't work in 2.4 any more[1]. :( Yeh, we stopped making sure yum was compatible with RHEL-5 a while ago now. Your best bet will be to test on a F18, or RHEL-6, machine ... and then backport the changes (might be a simple backport, depending on what you do). The only "recent" change (since RHEL-5) in this area was color_list_available_running_kernel, but you'll probably be fine with that and it should backport :). _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
