[Yum-devel] Making yum a more `portable' package manager

BebiX kost k.bx at ya.ru
Fri Jun 18 20:01:40 UTC 2010


Hmm... Yum? Maybe PackageKit is a better solution for this?

18.06.10, 22:51, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com>:

> Hi Yum folks,
>      I'm looking at adding yum to FreeBSD ports in order to do package
>  resolution at the Linux compat layer so we can have a more sane Linux
>  environment and one of the things that would need some work is the yum
>  tool (in particular: pathing, it needs a setup.py script for
>  completeness, etc). I was wondering if anyone was interested in this
>  work... at the worst folks with older versions of Fedora, Redhat, or
>  whatever could have a portable tool that installs into
>  ${PREFIX}/lib/python/site-packages/yum so some of the code
>  that's in place that tells yum where to pick up files wouldn't be
>  needed anymore, or someone using a dev version of the tool could use
>  the tool without impacting a system copy by setting the appropriate
>  variables that are used via distutils, etc.
>  Thanks!
>  -Garrett
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