1) I used to comment out baseurl to have yum skip over a repo, but that
generates a stacktrace now:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 45, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 106, in main
File "yummain.py", line 65, in parseCmdArgs
File "config.py", line 123, in __init__
File "config.py", line 247, in _doreplace
TypeError: expected string or buffer
2) maybe adding version number, other debuging info in stacktrace would be
helpful?
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/yum
yum-1.98-fr1.rh9
3) add --changelog information to .hdr. Yeah, It's not part of the rpm
header, but it would be very useful to any gui with multiple conflicting
repo's (like fedora vs. freshrpms), the user could say, get fr's mplayer
based on the fact that this new version fixed xyz... It seems that this
shouldn't be too hard, or break anything...
4) allow users to generator .hdr files when there isn't a repo.. If I
point yum at a directory full of rpms, why can't it just make .hdr files
and not require any server side setup at all? It seems that both ftp and
http support retrieving byte ranges, this would be nice as then all
directories with rpms in it are yum repos.. It seems that any yum setup
on servers should be optional..
5) what is the point of keeping .hdr files in /var/cache that are no
longer on the server? (debugging?, saves d/ling everything again if a repo
was flakey?) Whatever it is, it shouldn't be the default...
i'm willing to investigate this if ppl think it's useful.
