<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>> Hello,<br>> I'm writing this e-mail because I need your help for building a plugin<br>> for YUM.<br>> Let me explain first what I want to do.<br>> <br>> At an URL location <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/info">http://www.mywebsite.com/info</a> there is a file info.txt <br>> The contents of this file are in the following format:<br>> "package_name: information_about_the_package".<br>> <br>> When Yum dispalys the general information about a package (like<br>> package_name,version, etc.) I want it to display my info also.<br>> This means that I have to write a plugin that goes to my
website,<br>> downloads theinfo file, matches the packages name from my info file with<br>> the packages from the repository and displays the infos.<br>> <br>> I am newbie in Python and I would appreciate any help or suggestions.<br>A nice place to start poking arround is the wiki. This link:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins">http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins</a><br>should help you with your first steps. Writing plugins for Yum is not so hard.<br>> <br>> Thanks in advance.<br>> <br>> Alecs.<br><br>>A nice place to start poking arround is the wiki. This link:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins">>http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins</a><br>>should help you with your first steps. Writing plugins for Yum is not so hard.<br>><br>>Felipe<br><br><br>------------------------------<br>Thank's for the info Felipe,
but I forgot to mention that I've read and tested those examples twice.<br></div></div>I was hoping for a more detailed explanation, like what would be the most appropiate slot to download the info file from the server or<br>how to link the packages name from the repository with those from the file. <br>As I said before this is my first contact with python and yum plugins .<br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br></div></div><br></body></html>