[Yum-devel] groupreq in yum-2.6?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Sep 6 06:09:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 01:38 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Indeed, I'm coming to that conclusion too.  But that means there needs
> > to be an easy way to extend what files are available in the repo
> > metadata.  We want to be able to have, eg, <data type="grouphierarchy">
> > (categories) and <data type="profiles"> (these uses of groupreq).  As
> > well as anything else that someone may have a site-specific need for.
> > And possibly the thing to do is having parsing for a few Well-Defined
> > (tm) files in the yum/repomd base and allow adding new ones as x-foo,
> > where the parsing for x-foo has to be done in the end app.
> > 
> > I think this could be a pretty elegant way to actually let repomd grow
> > nicely into containing more information needed for system management
> > while at the same time, not having yum itself grow out of control and
> > trying to take over all aspects of system administration.
> > 
> 
> bringing this back up as I go through and purge old email.
> 
> We now have a way of including extra and random metadata in the repo.
> 
> maybe shortly after 3.0 comes out it would be a good time to work on a
> plugin or other adapter to try this.

It should be pretty straight forward -- Luke's update metadata stuff
shows how you can get arbitrary metadata from a plugin and then tie that
in with adding a new command line option, then voila!

Maybe I'll even get bored on the plane tomorrow ;-)

Jeremy




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