[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:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Wed, 27 May 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> 
> 
>         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?
> 
> 
>     What are you looking to do for yourself? OR are you just trying to
>     become familiar with writing yum plugins and/or yum?
> 
>     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
> 
> 
> 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/

/Brian/

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