Richard Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:30 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
I don't think we want to just put up a UI where you can edit the
various fields that are allowed in a repo config. As far as I know,
the three biggest use cases are:
o User installs an rpm that deploys a .repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d
- This is pretty good. The .repo file itself is managed by rpm.
Personally I like this approach as the rpm normally also installs the
gpg key needed for this.
o User downloads a repo file and saves it to /etc/yum.repos.d
- This is ok, but the user has to save the file as root. Maybe if
the repo had a mime type that firefox could recognize, and send the
file to PK to deal with? I don't know if this is a common enough use
case, or something that we want to encourage.
I don't this we want to be saying to random user to put random files as
root on their filesystem. A utopia-repo.rpm type rpm is 5 minutes work
max.
o The sysadmin deploys .repo files to a bunch of systems using puppet,
or some other config management tool
- This is fine, too. PK lets you enable/disable these locally if
needed.
Sure the other problem is with the abstraction. As soon as we add repos
(removing is easy) then we start having to deal with mirrorlists and
excludes and that sort of thing which is very difficult to abstract.
IMO, the sort of user editing repo files isn't the sort of person who
should need a GUI tool...
I don't "need" a GUI tool for any sort of package management at all. It
is merely convenient at times to be able to edit repositories via one.
Things like enabling updates-testing repository to quickly grab a new
package, enabling a repository for a particular session when it is
otherwise disabled, pointing to a local mirror or different source for a
repository, switching between base url and mirror list etc are things I
do pretty often. In Pirut, I have enabled the media repository on some
systems too.
Rahul
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