[Yum-devel] YumBase.preconf ... to get rid of doConfigSetup etc.

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 24 21:11:30 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 17:10 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:52 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:36 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:13 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > Would it make more sense to allow ANY config attribute to be set rather
> > > > than specifying them? I know it would be tricky to ensure but it would
> > > > mean not having to constantly add them in later when they are wanted for
> > > > some arbitrary setup.
> > > 
> > >  I don't think so, it would be easy to allow arbitrary data but I think
> > > we want to keep it to "configuration about the configuration" so that
> > > people setup their preconf and then just use "self.conf.blah".
> > >  We _might_ want to add:
> > > 
> > > preconf.uid
> > > preconf.logfile
> > > 
> > > ...as those are used in _getConfig(), but aren't settable atm.
> > > 
> > 
> > and probably preconf.arch, preconf.releasever, etc, as we move forward,
> > right?
> 
>  Oh, sure ... and/or just allow them to override yumvars directly.

see where this slippery path is leading?

-sv




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