Re: Thoughts: epel-release auto-enable crb repo

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On Fri, 2022-06-17 at 06:33 -0700, Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:22 PM Carl George <carl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:12 PM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm totally top-posting, and I apologize for that.
> > > 
> > > For right now, I'm going to put my enable-crb script in epel-
> > > release, but not automatically run it in a %post script or
> > > anything.
> > > The debate about putting it in a post script, or a separate
> > > package, can go on independently of the script.
> > > 
> > > This does a few things.
> > > - give people a single, easy to remember way to enable crb
> > > -- Right now if you install anything but RHEL you might remember
> > > "dnf install epel-release" but then you forget what the dnf
> > > command is to enable a repo, and you might forget if it's crb or
> > > powertools.
> > > -- It will make scripting easier because you just have one
> > > command that will work across all RHEL compatibles.
> > > 
> > > - gives the script a chance to find all the corner cases
> > > -- It's worked on everything I've tried thus far, but I'm sure
> > > there are some corner cases or two where the script doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > I was thinking of it being
> > >    /usr/bin/enable-crb
> > >    /usr/bin/epel-enable-crb (a link to enable-crb)
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Troy
> > > 
> > I think it would be nice to be able to both enable and disable from
> > the same script.  This would come in handy when you are looking for
> > things that don't install when crb is disabled.  I don't see
> > anything
> > else in Fedora or RHEL that ships a command with the name crb, so
> > how
> > about that?
> > 
> > crb enable
> > crb disable
> > 
> 
> 
> That shouldn't be too hard.  I'm going to give it a shot.
> If that takes too long, I'll just push what I currently have for now.
> 
> I notice that you said crb-enable, crb-disable.
> Do you like having the name first, or the function first?
> 
> enable-crb vs crb-enable  ?
> 
> either way I want to have it by itself, as well as starting with epel
> 
> epel-enable-crb  vs epel-crb-enable  ?
> 
> Troy
> 
> 

I'd be tempted to go with something like:

epel-crb-repo $action

This way any extra ideas for actions can be added easily later on. 
Perhaps a "check" or "status" to see if CRB is enabled/disabled/not-
what-the-os-ships.

Pat
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