Re: feedback wanted for two new yum-utils

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

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Tim Lauridsen wrote:

> On 11/09/2009 04:45 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> second:
>> a command-line pipes/parsing "friendly" yum-util.
>> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/playing-with-another-yum-util/
>
> Nice example of how to make a yum utils, kind of a yum-cli light :) to make 
> life easier for pearl heads :)
> you need to check to return code from buildtransaction and bail out not 2 :).


nod.


> showing packages in a way to be handled by pipes is ok, but i don't feel good 
> about install/update/remove packages in that way, we allready have yum shell 
> for that, maybe we should work on making the return codes better in yum-cli 
> instead.

making the return codes better is fine - except that it won't cover the 
'machine parseable' part and I routinely get pinged about that. It gets 
old.


-sv
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