Making updates-testing more useful

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Richard Hughes wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 17:43 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> Also, this would imply automatically turning on updates-testing,
>> downloading metadata, and disabling updates-testing all behind the
>> users back. A few people might get upset by this.
>
> I've been prototyping something like this, but it doesn't seem to work:
>
>    repos = self.yumbase.repos.repos.values()
>    repos_enabled = []
>    repos_disabled = []
>
>    pkgs = []
>    yb._up = None
>    ygl = yb.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow='updates')
>    pkgs.extend(ygl.updates)
>    ygl = yb.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow='obsoletes')
>    pkgs.extend(ygl.obsoletes)
>
>    print pkgs
>
>    for repo in repos:
>        if repo.id.endswith('testing'):
>            if not repo.isEnabled():
>                repo.enablePersistent()
>                repos_enabled.append(repo)
>        else:
>            if repo.isEnabled():
>                repo.disablePersistent()
>                repos_disabled.append(repo)
>
>    pkgs = []
>    yb._up = None
>    ygl = yb.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow='updates')
>    pkgs.extend(ygl.updates)
>    ygl = yb.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow='obsoletes')
>    pkgs.extend(ygl.obsoletes)
>
>    print pkgs
>
>    for repo in repos_enabled:
>        repo.disablePersistent()
>    for repo in repos_disabled:
>        repo.enablePersistent()
>
> I'm already clearing the update list by doing "yb._up = None", but I
> can't seem to get the "testing" updates in the second pass. Any ideas?

two things:
1. yb.up has a property() setter so you can do yb.up = None
2. you need to do the doRepoSetup(thisrepo=repo) for the repo to get 
picked up.

-sv