Hi all, Talking with owen stampflee on irc about things to break with regard to yum. He was clearly looking for something fun to break. Owen wants a yum search "foo" command - farkas levente also requested such a thing. It would search description/summary/other fields for a regex/glob/etc and return the pkgs having that. Russ Herrold suggested that maybe the yum command was getting a bit overloaded with options and maybe it'd be worthwhile to have something else to do misc non-pkg-installing/updating/erase related work. so the name yum-tool came out from somewhere, probably from me, b/c I'm boring. so what things would make sense to go in a yum-tool? I can think of these things: yum-tool depends pkgname/file/something (to do what rgb suggested this morning) yum-tool provides (move the provides functionality over there) yum-tool search yum-tool importkey /path/to/gpgkey yum-tool checkheaders yum-tool checkrpmdb anyway - you get the idea - another command, separate from yum that handles misc things that would just kludge up the main cli. maybe a better name than yum-tool or maybe a couple of command names, yum-find, yum-maint or something but this is a neat idea and it would mean lots of areas where people could get started working on yum if they wanted to w/o ever having to look at the rpm-side of things. of course, I couldn't promise all ideas would get into the code, but its a good place to start hacking in python some and just for playing around w/o having to worry as much about breaking the world for someone. comments? -sv
