[PLUGIN] Sync Yum channels

[Rehan Khan]

Imported: http://tracker.labix.org/issue350

Reason: Review Patch. Let's clean up the points I made and start bringing this into the main branch.

further details: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration

msg1338 (view) Author: rasker Date: 2008-06-23.18:25:16

Thanks for this plugin. I have got it working on f8 using the latest smart
from svn.

I had to comment line 114 (baseurl = baseurl.splitlines()[1]) to get it to
work without throwing an exception. (thanks afb on #smart!)

The second issue is that for each mirror it pulls in all the files. So for a
single baseurl you might get copies of the same data over and over again. I
guess there might be two solutions to this: delete the metadata files but keep
the repomd file for each mirror after the data has been imported (reducing the
storage overhead) or use the same file names for each baseurl. Just ideas. The
first idea might be better anyway because that would work for all smart rpm
repos.

Also if it goes to a different url for a mirror it will download the files
again even if it hasn't changed (although i am not sure it does this every
time but a lot of times i see this)

Livna.repo has an odd baseurl config. the line starts baseurl = (baseurl) then
they have another baseurl on the next line and so forth for each of thier
mirrors. Each of these is actually a mirror but it breaks the yumsync import.

The last thing is that the mirrors are imported before whatever pulls in the
normal smart import (e.g. from /etc/smart/channels) and if your distro has
installed soem config there it will import multiple channels which are
basically duplicates.

cheers

btw this should go in the distribution somehow!! It is very helpful

msg1302 (view) Author: netmask Date: 2008-02-03.17:46:14

This new modification supports usage of 'mirrorlist' tags.

msg1283 (view) Author: netmask Date: 2008-01-14.20:32:17

The test set was wrong. Here goes the fixed version.

msg1264 (view) Author: netmask Date: 2007-12-27.17:40:49

Hello Gustavo,

I'm sending two files that compose a new plugin that will sync Yum channel files
with Smart. This has been coded against SVN revision 899, and tested on RHEL5
and Fedora 8.

There is the plugin file itself, and the test set, as requested. My problem is:
I don't know how to run the test. :)

Please, review the proposed plugin, and let me know. Thank you!

[galactic-warrior (galactic-warrior)]

Is this in the latest Smart version on Fedora 10 yet please?