<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jeremy Katz wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1183387321.10801.17.camel@aglarond.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 15:27 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I see that the Edit->Repository menu item is not yet implemented till Pirut 1.3.8. I am going to write one for the offline package management tool (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum</a>) I am making for this year's Summer of Code (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay</a>). Do you already have some plans or suggestions in mind regarding the design and/or functionality of Edit->Repository that I can base my work on? Otherwise I can create one which will benefit both Pirut and my application. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> There's definitely need to flesh out and actually have the menu item in pirut be useful. There's already some code in various places (repoman and system-config-repositories in yumex are standalone... I think there's also some code in revisor). But I'm not all that sold on the UI with either... I think the place to start is with writing up some use cases and then trying to do some mockups from there before ever writing any code. Then the tricky part is likely to be doing the config reading/writing in a way that's not lossy. repoman actually has a good start on some of this, but it'd be nice to actually work towards getting that code into yum itself so that every tool doesn't have to re-invent those bits. Jeremy </pre> </blockquote> Sounds like a good idea, the config write routine in yum will remove all the # comment lines and mix all the options. I fixed the mixing in system-config-repo by building a extra layer on the yum config API, but it don't take care off the # comments. I would be a good idea to teach yum to save config files, without losing information. Tim </body> </html>