Hi Seth, I think it's a good idea. My only hesitation is that you leave the ones that are currently in yum, in yum. Though they could be parralled in yum-tool. I also like the idea of just one name with different options (yum-tool versus yum-search, yum-checkheaders, etc...). That way people only have to remember one main command, and only one man page to look at. The phrase RTFMP just doesn't apply if you can't figure out which man page to read. Just my two cents worth. Troy seth vidal wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
