seth vidal wrote:
>>I'd like to write a nice library that other programs can use. That way
>>people can write whatever they want, hopefully, with ease and there can
>>be greater expansion and growth in the number of useful tools out there,
>>rather than cramming everything into one tool.
>>
Hmm, maybe I'm digressing. My ideas are maybe more suitable for a tool
that uses a yum library.
Something like a yum shell with tab completion is one idea, or context
sensitive help in the standard CLI:
bash$ yumshell
yum> yum <TAB>
Available command options are:
repo - repository actions.
package - package actions.
transaction - encapsulates commands in a transaction block.
yum> yum package <TAB>
Valid package commands:
install - intall a package, args: <package name>
update - remove a package, args: <package name>
This would then fit in nicely with the various ideas to add
scriptability to yum:
foo.yum:
<yum>
<transaction>
<package>
<install>bar</install>
<update>thing</update>
</package>
</transaction>
</yum>
bash$ yumshell < foo.yum # then runs the above this would be equivalent
to running the yum shell and typing in the commands.
The same tool with a direct CLI interface:
bash$ yumshell package help
Usage: yum package <update | upgrade | install | etc. >
bash$ yumshell repo help
Usage: yum repo <list | query | etc. >
Carwyn
