[Yum-devel] Yum Plug-in Development

[Brandon Galbraith]

Thanks Brian! I obviously had not looked hard enough.

-brandon

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Brian Long <brilong at cisco.com> wrote:

> Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org
> > <mailto:skvidal at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Wed, 27 May 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> >
> >
> >         If someone else would find an XML web service useful, I'd be
> >         willing to go in that direction. Is anyone else looking for
> >         that sort of functionality?
> >
> >
> >     What are you looking to do for yourself? OR are you just trying to
> >     become familiar with writing yum plugins and/or yum?
> >
> >     If you're looking for something to do with yum plugins and want some
> >     ideas or looking to work on something in yum, then I'm sure we can
> >     come up with some fun ideas for you to try out!
> >
> >     -sv
> >
> >
> > My goal is to provide a central location showing updates that need to be
> > applied to various servers (similar to RHN, but without the remote
> > control ability). My thought was to have yum auto update everything
> > except some critical packages we use (we roll our own distribution as
> > well), but on a weekly basis push a list of updates that have not been
> > completed into a mysql database. That table would then spit out the data
> > onto a dynamically generated page. Am I going about this the wrong way?
> > I spent some time researching centralized yum administration similiar to
> > RHN, but found nothing cohesive.
>
> What about RHN's upstream?
>
> http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
>
> /Brian/
>
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