[Yum-devel] Where does this come from ?

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 16:45 +0200, tim.lauridsen at gmail.com wrote:
> Maybe I have mised something, but is dont remember seeing this patch on
> yum-devel :)

 Yeh, I'm not sure it got posted ... it was supposed to only be a
cosmetic change! As it looked like everyone was using repo.id when they
needed just the id and str(repo) when they wanted to print something to
the user.

> I make yumex blow up, because
> 
> repoid, metatype = name.split('/')
> 
> dont act so good when you add change name from <repoid>/<metadata type> to
> <repoid>/<release>/<arch>/<rmetadata type> :)

 It seems like PK did something similar too, and having two backward
incompatibilities seems like at least one too many. We could change it
to use repo.id for __str__ (with a big comment that it can't change
anytime soon), and then use repo.ui_id everywhere we want the nicer
output to the user ... that was actually my first plan but then I had
this great idea that __str__ would already be used for that so I might
as well just change it.
 Or we could leave it and fix the two callers (and just remember not to
backport to F16/etc. without putting conflicts in). Thoughts?