[Yum-devel] repoquery/yumquery/something

Menno Smits menno-yum at freshfoo.com
Fri Sep 10 05:50:00 UTC 2004


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seth vidal wrote:
|>If no yum.conf exists then just error out unless the user specifies the
|>repo. I'm guessing a lot of people would like to use this tool with the
|>repos they use with yum. It would be inconvenient to have to keep
|>entering the repos on the command line.
|>
|>[thinks some more....]
|>
|>Or how about a command line switch to say "read repositories from
|>yum.conf" and another for "read repositories from apt's sources.list"?
|>These would be alongside the "--repodata" switch of course. I think this
|>would provide a good level of flexibility and convenience.
|
| then read up2date sources, too

Yep, and the config for anything else that comes along that supports the
new style repos.

| but I think it should only read xml metadata repositories - not old-
| style yum-repos, apt-repos or anything else.

Yes, definitely.

Menno
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