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

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Tim Lauridsen wrote:

>> 
>> 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.
>>


So in general I like this. We can pare down the misc utils and add some 
functionality to this.

I think in general we should try to get generic repository/system/pkg 
sanity checks added to the yum base objects and then make use of them in 
repo-check based on certain criteria.

ie: a sack closure check or a conflicts check or a file-conflicts check, 
etc, etc, etc

we add those to the repo and pkgSack objects in yum and use them from 
repo-check.

does that make sense to y'all?
-sv