[Yum] yum plugin help
Felipe Rafailov
rafailov at mandriva.com
Tue Oct 31 20:07:02 UTC 2006
Em Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:37:07 -0800 (PST)
Dinu Alecsandru <allecsro at yahoo.com> escreveu:
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> I'm writing this e-mail because I need your help for building a plugin
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> for YUM.
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> Let me explain first what I want to do.
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> At an URL location http://www.mywebsite.com/info there is a file info.txt
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> The contents of this file are in the following format:
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> "package_name: information_about_the_package".
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> When Yum dispalys the general information about a package (like
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> package_name,version, etc.) I want it to display my info also.
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> This means that I have to write a plugin that goes to my website,
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> downloads theinfo file, matches the packages name from my info file with
> the packages from the repository and displays the infos.
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> I am newbie in Python and I would appreciate any help or suggestions.
A nice place to start poking arround is the wiki. This link:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins
should help you with your first steps. Writing plugins for Yum is not so hard.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Alecs.
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Felipe
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