Re: New script to yum-utils: debugrepo-check

Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, James Antill wrote:

> Ville Skyttä <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'd like to see a script I've used every now and then to find out problems
>>> in debuginfo package repos available somewhere, making it easier for people
>>> to spot such issues.  Attached is a patch that adds it to yum-utils, along
>>> with a sample output of current rawhide-debuginfo.
>>
>> Any comments about this?  If people don't see this fitting nicely in yum-
>> utils, I'll start looking at shipping it somewhere else.
>
> I think we want all the checks like this in one tool (maybe
> repoclosure), I also have a script which checks that prco data across
> subarches is good and I'm sure there are others ... can you think
> of a good reason to have N scripts, as against one yumrepolint type
> thing?


if they are generic checks against a repository for 'health' and not 
fedora-specific checks, would it make sense to merge the checks in as a 
method on top of the packagesack object? Then the tool would be 
considerably thinner as it would just call and report from that?

-sv

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