[Yum-devel] Plugin interface to add yumvars?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 09:48 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> I would like to write a plugin to be able to add vars to the 'yumvars' hash. I
> would like to have a yum repo like this:
> 
>     [dell-machinespecific]
>     baseurl=http://linux.dell.com/repo/machine_specific/system-$dellsystemid
> 
> But the problem I see is that there is no place where the plugins get called
> between where yumvars is set (readMainConfig()) and where it is used
> (getReposFromConfig()):
> 
>     --> yum/__init__.py  doConfigSetup():
>     ======================================
>     self.conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
>     self.yumvar = self.conf.yumvar
>     self.getReposFromConfig()
> 
> The only way I can see to do this is really ugly. Any suggestions?

Hmm, What you want to do might not be possible right now. But your
reason for wanting to do it is interesting. It might make for a good
reason to add the ability to do this. Can you use the
environment-variable defined values in the interim? YUMVAR0-9, I mean.
-sv