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Thomas Canniot, It is nice to see somebody is working on making pirut shine.

The changes is a step in the right direction, It is nice to be able to select what repositories to be enabled in the current session, but i don’t think the repo management (adding, deleting etc) shall be in pirut, the repo management shall be in a separate tool (in System -> Administration) there could be a button to launch the repo tool in pirut. I talked with Jeremy Katz when he started to work on pirut, because i wanted to merge yumex and pirut at that time, but it didn’t happen because the scope was different. pirut was meant to be the counter part to the package selection in anaconda and yumex was a more advanced package manager with more advanced set of features. The scope for pirut was a simple and easy tool to select and install/remove packages in the same way as in anaconda. if the scope for pirut has changed then it maybe is time to look at a merge of the projects again.

I have not blogged a lot in the new year, but i have been busy with a lot of different stuff.

Yumex:

Yumex 1.9.x is progressing very fine, the speed is much better and code i smuch more organized than the yumex 1.2.x releases. The gui is more clean and better organized. Some of the recent features i added is a skip mirror button and an option to save and load the package queue.

yum & yum-utils:

There have been some nice progress in the current yum development, i have been working on building a base for creating yum utilities, there inherit commandline options and callback handler from the yum-cli, some every util don’t have to implement options like ‘–enablerepo/–disablerepo’,'–noplugins’ etc. The result of the work has been included in the yum 3.1.1, so now yum-util has been branched into a branch (1.0.x) following yum 3.0.x and one (1.1.x) following yum 3.1.x. I have started to modify the exiting tools like yum-downloader to use the new yum util base included in yum.

FC7 Test1:

I have been using some time test the Fedora 7 Test1 release, it look like a good release, it is the first test release i have installed without any detecting any problems, so now i’m running Test1 on my laptop and my desktop as my primary OS.

Personal stuff.

January has been an important month for me, my youngest son (13 months old) has started to walk, it’s funny to see how fast the walking is progressing from two steps in the start of January, to something the looks like a somebody running after they had to much to drink. He also practice some kind of advanced form of eating, by absorbing the food trough the skin.

In yumex 1.2.x is was possible to edit/delete/create yum repositories.

In yumex 1.9.x, have have removed these features, because i have put there features in general purpose tool called ‘system-config-repo’. The tool has the following features. (at the moment)

• Easy enable and disable repositories.
• Edit the repositories.
• Make it easy for novice users to add new 3. part repositories, by importing repositories from .repo files and xxxxx-release.rpm, copy an url from a webpage and paste it into the tools.

Check it out and let me know what you think and what feature could be usefull in a tools like this.
You can get the source and rawhide rpms here.

Screenshoots:

The tools is written in Python and uses pyGTK/ Glade for the gui stuff.

It look like somebody else have got the same idea and create a similar  tools called repoman , I have asked the author, if we should join forces and merge the projects into one tools, but have not got any response yet.