[Yum-devel] new stuff

[seth vidal]

Hi,
 I checked in fleshed out metadata retrieval routines. They appear to be
doing the 'right thing' in checksumming the local ones before getting
anything new. I need to figure out which items will need a progress bar
object and which ones won't.
 I also merged in the newest urlgrabber.

Right now yum-HEAD will:
 startup
 read in your config
 get md from your repos
 setup your repos
 setup the localrpmdb
 parse them and produce a count of updates for your system.

it will also parse command line options and pair them up versus the
available or installed package lists to deal with wacky options like:

foo-1.1*.x86_64

there's still lots to go but I feel a lot of pieces are coming together.

Things that would be handy:
 if anyone gets bored and wants to do something really useful - go
through all the code and look for any places where global excepts are
left - this means any code - metadata, rpmUtils, urlgrabber, anywhere,
if it is at all possible I'd like to kill off any of these so they don't
bite us later.

-sv