[Yum-devel] post 3.2.0 things to think about

Tim Lauridsen tla at rasmil.dk
Thu May 10 11:28:48 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>   
>> Some other brainstorms as I've been sitting around and talking to folks
>> on jabber and irc. Some of these are things to add into yum, others are
>> just things to implement as yum-utils - but feedback on the stupidity of
>> some of these items is welcome, in no particular order:
>>
>>     
>
> Here's the list I've put together from what some folks have posted. This
> is not necessarily complete but it is the set of things which I find
> particular interesting:
>
> - use tolerant config option to step around problem pkgs in a
> transaction
> - gpg/cert/sig check on repomd.xml
> - client-side ssl certs for repos
>    - docs for this
> - switch from cvs to $SCM (git, hg)
> - more generic rpm/transaction callback interface
>   - not at the cli level.
> - pattern= in install(), update(), remove()
> - per-item pre and post transaction plugin hooks
> - transaction event database? - as a plugin?
> - recursive/unused dep-removal in yum
> - merge in some commonly-used plugins
>    - protectbase?
>    - installonlyn?
>    - priorities?
>    - fastestmirors?
>    - allowdowngrade?
>    - changelog?
>    - tsflags?
> - yum list vendors
>
>
>
> -sv
>
>
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I have added the list on the Todo list in the yum Wiki.
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodo

Tim

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