Yum support in the Packages plugin should call Yum to calculate dependencies

[David Strauss <[email protected]…>]

Currently, the Yum support assumes the upstream repositories are all native Yum. This is not true for the Red Hat Network, which uses its own XMLRPC server. If the Packages plugin uses Yum's own "yum deplist", then it can be compatible with any Yum back-end.

[David Strauss <…>]

Here's a rough draft of the basic idea, without proper support for unknown packages.

    def complete(self, metadata, packages, unknown, debug):
       	pkgstring = ' '.join(packages)
       	print pkgstring
        depstring = commands.getoutput('yum deplist -q ' + pkgstring  + '|grep "provider: "|sed "s/[ ]*provider: \([^\.]*\)\..*/\1/g"|sort|uniq')
        deparray = depstring.split('\n')
        return (deparray, set())

[David Strauss <…>]

The necessity of this issue is somewhat a result of the problems in bug #725.

[desai]

The current version in trunk of Packages seems to fix these issues.