Pirut: Edit -> Repositories

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hikaru Amano wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just a moment. I am getting lost on this.
>>
>> > +1 to a single tool for managing repos globally, rather than every
>> > apps have its own repo control, which is , IMHO, make stuff feels more
>> > complicated ..
>>
>> The YUM API already has a way to enable and disable repositories. The
>> --enablerepo and --disablerepo flags directly use this.
>>
>> What seems to be lacking is a way to alter yum.conf and the .repo
>> files so that the changes become persistent. Once this is available in
>> the YUM API, all that an application needs to do is make calls to this
>> API component to do the necessary configuration.
>>
> 
> yup .. I'm looking for a way to alter yum.conf and the .repo file to
> become persistent .. I have set up a LAN repo for newbies in my uni
> and was trying to make a one click installation script for it ... I
> dont want to tell them to manually edit all the .repo files one by one
> to disable the official repos and enable my repos...

Rum (The original one, not Debarshi's) did have easy command line 
arguments for disabling/enabling repositories in a persistent manner. 
They probably have custom code to do this but you might want to take a 
look at that.

Rahul