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

On 05/07/2009 09:04 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> It could work something like
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>>> repocheck somecheck [<somecheck args> <somecheck cmd option>] 
>>> <general options>
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>>> <general option> is yum options inherited from yum cli like debug 
>>> level.
>>>
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> So in general I like this. We can pare down the misc utils and add 
> some functionality to this.
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> 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.
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> ie: a sack closure check or a conflicts check or a file-conflicts 
> check, etc, etc, etc
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> we add those to the repo and pkgSack objects in yum and use them from 
> repo-check.
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> does that make sense to y'all?
> -sv
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That make sense to me :)

Tim