[Yum] Changing user agent string

Dan Christian dac at proofpoint.com
Fri Mar 26 18:56:33 UTC 2004


I just couldn't leave well enough alone.  I actually want to be able to 
change the string on the fly when installed as an RPM (no source).

So I added it to yum.conf as "useragentstring".  See the attached patch 
and tell my what you think.

-Dan

seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 18:25 -0800, Dan Christian wrote:
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>>Is there a way to change the user agent string?
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>>Some people severely limit which agents are allowed through a proxy.
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>>It seems to be set in clientStuff.py:35:
>># it would be nice to make this slurp the REAL version from somewhere :)
>>urlgrabber.set_user_agent("Yum/2.X")
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>edit that line. :)
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>-sv
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