[Yum-devel] yumBase using properties

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:51 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 12:50 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 02:34 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > >  The attached patch adds as properties most of the big yum base
> > > attributes.
> > [snip]
> > > anyway - let me know what you think and if we like it, I'll commit it.
> > 
> > James hit good high points.  My only other concern might be the change
> > to cli.py as an indicator that other things would break,
> 
> Well, the only reason it broke is b/c we were using the status of that
> object as None to determine if the repo had already been set up. Which
> is kinda silly, anyway.

Yep.

> >  but at the same
> > time, I can't see any other cases which would from some quick looking
> > around in all the bits I have checked out.
>  
> I looked through some yum-utils and even in there I think we might be
> able to keep them all running.

My usual checks are the stuff in pirut, anaconda and yum-utils.  I also
just did a checkout of yumex and it looks safe for it as well.

While we're on the subject -- any other big yum API users that people
can think of?  Maybe it's worth starting a list on the wiki.

Jeremy