On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:27 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 07:18 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > I'm encouraged by the discussion so far. Seth, I must admit I did little > > detailed research into yum modules beforehand. Can you point me to > > documentation? Can they be called remotely? If not, I could at least use > > them to eliminate the os.system() calls on the local end. > > They're not documented terribly well in any external documentation, but > the pydoc docs are a good place to start from. > > 1. drop the use of ssh from your util that should be handled outside of > it > 2. have your util have a source and dest mode. > > in the source mode it generates a file documenting what's on the machine > in the client mode it reads that file and makes the current system look > like the contents of the file. > > that simplifies what you have to do a good deal and you can leave the > data transport of the file up to the user. or, alternatively, implement this: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/yum-system-sync.txt I wrote that up some months ago and just never got a chance to do it. Maybe even consider starting from this code: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/dupes-cli.py as a nice place to begin with. -sv -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
