Em Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:37:07 -0800 (PST) Dinu Alecsandru <allecsro@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > Hello, > > > > I'm writing this e-mail because I need your help for building a plugin > > for YUM. > > > > Let me explain first what I want to do. > > > > At an URL location http://www.mywebsite.com/info there is a file info.txt > > The contents of this file are in the following format: > > "package_name: information_about_the_package". > > > > When Yum dispalys the general information about a package (like > > package_name,version, etc.) I want it to display my info also. > > This means that I have to write a plugin that goes to my website, > > downloads theinfo file, matches the packages name from my info file with > the packages from the repository and displays the infos. > > > > I am newbie in Python and I would appreciate any help or suggestions. A nice place to start poking arround is the wiki. This link: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins should help you with your first steps. Writing plugins for Yum is not so hard. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Alecs. > > > Felipe
