Chris Lumens wrote:
David Cantrell and I have been working on a small utility to configure
yum repositories and made it available publically on Sunday night after
putting some serious work into it over the weekend. He sent an
announcement to fedora-devel-list, but since he's not on this list I
said I'd forward it along. For now, the project is being hosted on his
machine but we'll probably move it later.
Here's the text of the announcement. My apologies to those who will be
seeing this twice. One note modifying the text is that we now do have
devel packages available since the problem was with the spec file, not
with the build system.
- Chris
Announcing repoman
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Repoman is a PyGTK frontend for configuring common and basic settings
for yum. Specifically, it lets users enable and disable individual
repos easily. Users can add and remove repositories as well.
Repoman is not meant to expose all of yum's configuration settings in
GUI form, but rather the common settings most users will care about.
One of the interesting features is the Tracking page. Users can easily
switch between stable (with or without updates) or development branches
and repoman will enable and disable the correct repositories for the
user.
Repoman also offers a set of Python classes for reading and writing out
/etc/yum.repos.d files. The core element is the RepoStanza, which are
contained in RepoFiles, and all of those make up a Repos collection.
This program is evolving a lot, so help testing and/or coding is
appreciated.
Repoman is short for repository manager.
DOWNLOAD
Web page: http://www.boston.burdell.org/repoman/
Source archives are available in tar.gz format. We have RPMs
available for Fedora Core 6. We would have rawhide RPMs available,
but we ran in to a problem building on rawhide.
QUESTIONS/BUGS
Please email me or Chris Lumens (email addresses on web page) if you
bug reports.
Hi Chris
I have also started a project called 'system-config-repo' doing exactly
the same stuff as repoman.
You can checkout the sources and rawhide rpms here:
http://www.yum-extender.org/dnl/system-config-repo/devel/
If you and David are interested we can merge our projects, no need for
two different repository manager projects.
Let me know what you think.
Tim
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