Why not just make a repo out of your RPM's ? “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Dmitry Makovey <dmitry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a plugin that would dynamically "inject" local > "repositories" (which are nothing more than collections of RPM files) but I > keep on bumping into problems. Latest one is: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1145, in > __getattr__ > return self.hdr[thing] > KeyError: 'unknown header tag' > > What I'm trying to do is bridge CPacMan and Yum via plugin. CPacMan has it's > own concept of "repos" which could be local caches of Yum repos or just > directories with RPMs etc. What I want to do with this plugin is to wrap some > of those repos CPacMan has (based on certain criteria) and present them to Yum > as valid repos making operations of package install much more seamless etc. I > didn't want to create 1:1 relationship between CPacMan repo and Yum repo, I > also realize that is something that RedHat is already doing with RHN plugin. > However instead of trying to cut through the RH code I'd like to get some > clean sample of plugin generating dynamic repo "in-memory" rather than what > one of the examples shows - creating temp repo definition and pointing it to > the directory subsequently doing "createrepo" on it. > > I'm attaching my (oversimplified) attempt of doing so, hoping that somebody > can point me at missing bits and pieces (or maybe point me in the right > direction?). I intentionally removed most of the CPacMan logic to make it more > yum-specific excercise (full, and "ugly" version of it is here: > http://cpacman.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cpacman/cpacman- > yum/trunk/cpacman_yum.py?revision=238&view=markup ) > > Any help is highly appreciated. > > -- > Dmitry Makovey > Web Systems Administrator > Athabasca University > (780) 675-6245 > --- > Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem > Woody Allen > > When in trouble when in doubt run in circles scream and shout > http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19330 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
