Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:57:51AM -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 21:48 -0700, Jorge Gallegos wrote: > > So, I gather no one can shed some light on this? anyone? bueller? > > > > The bug (point #2) doesn't really stop the plugin from working, but it is annoying. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated > > You'd probably have been better off mailing this to the yum devel ML > and not fedora-devel. Anyway... *Facepalm* you're right. My apologies... I guess I gotta work a little less because I don't know what I'm thinking half the time :-/ > > > > - Fix an annoying bug where the plugin creates an empty yum cachedir in > > > the current directory. This is because the way the plugin works, it > > > creates a copy of the original repo with a different grabber based on > > > boto/urllib2 and then copies the rest of the attributes. However when > > > the [3]new repo is created, basecachedir is empty. Can any of you fine > > > people spot a way around that? it's been bugging me for a good week now. > > This is due to the switch you are doing on the repo. objects ... using > itermitems() seems like it's clever, to get all the data from the > swapped out repo. ... but that's actually inherited from the config. > object, so all you are setting are the config. options. Actually I did this because a bunch of attrs like name and etc. weren't set. I thought this would be easier than fishing for the missing attrs > The RHN plugin just manually sets .base_persistdir, IIRC, and that will > probably fix it for you too. For your usecase I'd be very tempted to not > do the swapout at all (as it requires a lot of testing/etc.) as all you > really need is to override the grab object and set a couple of things. > I'll take a look at the RHN plugin (should've seen that one sooner too ~.~ ) and maybe you're right... I _should_ be able to just override the grabber. I'll explore both. Thanks a lot! > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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