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

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> 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?
>>
> 
> I love the idea of having a more generic repo check tool where all kind 
> of repo related checks can be:
> 
> something like the way yum commands are implemented in yumcommands.py.
> 
> where we have a base class with some generic methods that each check 
> should inherit and implement, i will make it much easier to maintain and 
> easier to add new type of checks.
> 
> It could work something like
> 
> repocheck somecheck [<somecheck args> <somecheck cmd option>] <general 
> options>
> 
> <general option> is yum options inherited from yum cli like debug level.
> 
> Tim
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Ok, i got carried away :)

I have added at repo-check.py[1] with the basic pieces to make such a tool.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.

Tim

[1]: http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d6f4ff763fbd18bbebeeab40fcb1ba3487cda1b