[Yum-devel] Including a user-agent

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:21 -0500, James Antill wrote:
> So to re-open a discussion from 2004:
> 
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2004-March/004134.html
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2004-March/004135.html
> 
> ...what do people think of having a _non-configurable_ user-agent string
> like:
> 
> urlgrabber/3.0.0 YUM/3.2.11
> 
> ...where the first part comes from urlgrabber, and the second we add[1],
> this provides two benefits:
> 
> 1. It allows us to track which versions people are using on Fedora etc.
> 
> 2. It allows people to configure holes in their firewall for YUM.
> 
> ...the BZ that wants this is for #2, but I figure #1 is useful enough we
> don't have to discuss how bad that is.
> 
> 
> [1] It might even be nice to have the Fedora rpms change it to give the
> entire rpm epoch/version/release maybe even add updatesd in their too.
> 

sigh. We had this before. And it seems to have left at some point.


urlgrabber's setup can accept it, iirc

-sv