Projects

yum

Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

Yum-utils

Yum-utils is a collection of tools written using the Yum API, to do different kind of yum/rpm related tasks.

cobbler

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, media-based net-installs, and virtualized installs (supporting Xen, qemu, KVM, and VMware ... [More] Server). Cobbler uses a helper program called 'koan' (which interacts with Cobbler) for reinstallation and virtualization support. Cobbler can also optionally help with managing DHCP, DNS, power, config management, and yum package mirroring infrastructure -- in this regard, it is a more generalized "batteries included" deployment server, rather than just dealing specifically with installations. It has a command line interface, a web interface, and also several API access options. [Less]

Yum-updatesd

Fedora Live Tools

Tools for generating live CD's on Fedora based systems including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS and others.

Yum-metadata-parser

pacapt

An (Arch Linux) pacman-like package manager for some Linux distributions. Actually this Bash script provides a wrapper for system's package manager. Instead of remembering various options/tools on different OSs, you only need a common way to manipulate packages. Not all options of the native ... [More] package manager are ported; the tool only provides a very basic interface to search, install, remove packages, and/or update the system. [Less]

Smart Package Manager

The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

yumex

yumex is a GUI for the yum package manager, it is written i Python and is using the PyGTK toolkit for GUI Components.

upgrade_mailer.py

A simple Python script that checks for updates on an Apt (Debian/Ubuntu) or Yum (Fedora/Redhat/Centos) based system and emails a notification and/or sends jabber messages to various admins.