[Yum-devel] Yum Plug-in Development
Brian Long
brilong at cisco.com
Wed May 27 20:28:23 UTC 2009
Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:skvidal at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
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> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
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> If someone else would find an XML web service useful, I'd be
> willing to go in that direction. Is anyone else looking for
> that sort of functionality?
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> What are you looking to do for yourself? OR are you just trying to
> become familiar with writing yum plugins and/or yum?
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> If you're looking for something to do with yum plugins and want some
> ideas or looking to work on something in yum, then I'm sure we can
> come up with some fun ideas for you to try out!
>
> -sv
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> My goal is to provide a central location showing updates that need to be
> applied to various servers (similar to RHN, but without the remote
> control ability). My thought was to have yum auto update everything
> except some critical packages we use (we roll our own distribution as
> well), but on a weekly basis push a list of updates that have not been
> completed into a mysql database. That table would then spit out the data
> onto a dynamically generated page. Am I going about this the wrong way?
> I spent some time researching centralized yum administration similiar to
> RHN, but found nothing cohesive.
What about RHN's upstream?
http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
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