Hello everyone.
We are developing here Action Chain feature, where you can add some actions
(install/remove/verify/etc package or other things) to the Chain, making sort
of one-shot batch. These actions won't be executed, until you execute the
entire chain.
We are also developing the XML-RPC API for it and they are already working in
our branch. :)
Here how do they look like. For example, in Python you could call:
client = xmlrpc....
sid = client.login....
# To list them
for chain in client.actionchains.listChains():
print chain.get("name")
# Add some package removal.
# Note: the IP is optional, IPv6 accepted too
client.actionchains.addPackageRemoval(sid,
"myfantasticserver", "12.34.56.78",
[{"name" : "alsa-lib", "version" : "1.0.22",},
{"name" : "some-name", "version" : "1.2.3.4",},],
"My Chain")
# Remove actions from some chain:
client.actionchains.removeActions("My Chain", ["Package Install", "Reboot"])
# Remove the whole chain
client.actionchains.removeChains(["My Chain"])
You may ask: Why no 10000010000 for system instead? Why no 23445323 instead
for a package? It is simple: you, as an admin in the datacenter, you have an
RPM database, and you can --queryformat it and AWK it the way that your
XML-RPC Python script will understand it right away.
Adding IDs is possible too, but mainly we looked to operate the packages and
systems at human-compatible way.
What you think?
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