> I am new to yum. > I like its direction compared to nrh-up2date and current. > I am a pretty good python programmer, so I would like to help out. > I switched from Perl to Python a few years ago, and it is my language of > choice. > > My goal at my current job (which uses Perl), is to avoid buying > a Satelitte server from RH which is about to happen. > > I have to create webpages (or use open source software) to replace > the features of a RH Satelitte server. > Whatever I choose on the client side, I have to make it work with the server > side software. > > Any ideas about how to best implement a gui web interface for people > to manage computers using yum? Basically, I need to be able to > create different repositories and apply them to differeent sets of servers. > I am interested in the problems people have encountered. > I will check out the mailing list archives. > > Even if we don't end up using yum at work, I am still interested in making > webpages to manage servers using yum. Something to replace the RH > Satelitte server. > Essentially you want to do remote communication to control a number of systems from a single point. Best thing I can think of is for you to work on an xml-rpc service that runs on the clients and takes communication over an authenticated and encrypted connection. That connection comes from an xml-rpc client talking from your central server. That server gets commands based on what is stored in a database. The commands in the database come from the inputted from a webpage. If you can come up with a nice interface to yum-HEAD via xml-rpc for storing a series of commands and getting back input then you're a significant portion on the way to what you want to do. Move over to the yum-devel list (yum-devel at lists.dulug.duke.edu) and we can discuss it more there. -sv
