A new utility to augment yum - machine cloner

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed Jan 10 13:18:48 UTC 2007


I'm encouraged by the discussion so far.  Seth, I must admit I did little
detailed research into yum modules beforehand.  Can you point me to
documentation?  Can they be called remotely?  If not, I could at least use
them to eliminate the os.system() calls on the local end.

> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 00:04 +1100, David Timms wrote:
>
>> Horst: knowing that you would be unlikely to use such a python/yum tool,
>> do you see any specific problems with the general design of Jon's tool,
>> for example in terms of security, or practical application that would be
>> a show stopper in terms of fedora inclusion ?
>
> Though it is not a show stopper it is negative that the tool uses yum by
> making os.system() calls instead of using the yum modules.
>
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