[Yum-devel] Option handling problems

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Oct 7 13:52:10 UTC 2004


> Here they are:
> 
> * the bandwidth and throttle options are passed straight through as
> strings when they need to be converted to floats and/or ints. This
> causes a crash in urlgrabber when it trys to multiply them together.

Feel free to fix them and send me patches :)


> * the proxy, proxy_username and proxy_password, syslog_ident and
> syslog_facility options are read up but never used.


hmm - I'd like to get all these fixed up too. It's something I never run
across so it doesn't get much traffic from me.


> I haven't finished going through all the options yet so there may be
> more to come...
> 

Great. Let me know.

One I know that is not going to be doing anything: pkgpolicy

-sv






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