[CentOS-gsoc] yum plugins for docker

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On 03/17/2015 08:16 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
> I've been asked a couple times privately for information about
> this, so here's my current thinking on the project goals.

Just a note that we'll want to migrate development-focused
conversations to cents-devel. It's OK that things are all over the
place right now, that's part of getting started. :)

All students should be subscribed to that list as well.

Regards - Karsten

> 
> must-have:
> 
> 1. be able to exec (or otherwise connect to a container) and
> perform a 'yum update' of the container, commiting the results upon
> successful completion. eg - yum dockerupdate -y centos # run yum -y
> update in the centos:latest container.
> 
> 2. Traditional yum interaction is expected (prompting for 'y/n',
> or accepting options like -y)
> 
> 3. Passing exit values from the container to the host.
> 
> 4. Exit with message on unsupported containers.
> 
> 4. documentation and invalid-command syntax fails to usage/help.
> 
> 
> nice-to-have:
> 
> 1. tab complete support for commands as well as available
> containers. 2. support for non-rpm based updates (support apt for
> debian/ubuntu based containers)
> 
> questionable:
> 
> glob/regex support to perform update on every matching container
> 
> 
> 
> Comments/Questions?
> 


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