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Yum. The Fedora package manager. Feature of hates past and surely
hates future. Today, it is my hate.
A Linux distribution has many thousands of files. Nevertheless, they
are generally organised in reasonable groupings [1]. Yum, however, has
its configuration files organised as follows:
/etc
|-- yum
| |-- pluginconf.d
| | `-- installonlyn.conf
| `-- yum-daily.yum
|-- yum.conf
|-- yum.conf.bak
`-- yum.repos.d
|-- atrpms.repo
|-- dag.repo
|-- dries.repo
...
Yes, although there is an /etc/yum directory, the yum.conf file (_and_
backup copy) float next to it in /etc itself; and then there is
_another_ directory, /etc/yum.repos.d, wherein yum's knowledge of
repositories resides. The net result is that I can't easily
tab-complete the path to various parts of the yum config and have to
remember how it's arranged, which is fucking stupid. Would it have
been _too_ hard for whatever team of monkeys filled with crack it is
that writes this application to have put everything in /etc/yum? IS
THAT TOO FUCKING OBVIOUS FOR YOU?
Talking of /etc/yum.repos.d (proof of my point: my fingers just tried
to type /etc/yum/repos.d), it contains one file per repository,
because they are written in what appears to be .ini format and are
INCREDIBLY VERBOSE. Here's a snippet:
[core]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
Yes, it's doing some kind of crap involving interpolation of variables
from who-knows-where. Note the nice use of an "enabled" flag, but also
a line being commented out. What does that mean? I haven't got a clue.
But what I do know is that you're fucked if you expect to be able to
add repositories with a single line of text, apt-style. CRAP FOUNTAIN.
[1] Or not? Place your hates now!
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
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