YOURI project

What is it?

YOURI stands for "Youri Offers an Upload & Repository Infrastucture". It aims to build tools making management of a coherent set of packages easier.

Rationales

Running a package distribution project involves a lot of tasks:

• allow individual maintainers to upload packages in a central repository
• create packages index for packages managers such as urpmi or yum
• synchronise developement resources such as CVS or bugzilla
• advertise new packages
• sign packages numerically
• check individual packages consistency
• check global repository consistency
• etc...

The quick'n'dirty approach of using a pile of dedicated shell scripts, with hardcoded distributer-specific policies, generally results quickly in a maintainance nightmare for admins and a discrepancy nightmare for users. YOURI aims to leverage those issues by providing a generic package management framework, focused on code reusability and modularity.

Software

The project is currently composed of three parts:

• library
• youri-check
• youri-submit

Demonstration

A daily run of youri-check against mandriva cooker is available here.

Download

Stable releases are available from here.

Subversion repository can be explored with viewvc, or accessed directly here.

Contacts

Mailing-list:

• youri-discuss for project discussion
• youri-devel for SVN commit messages

Reporting bugs

Use bugzilla.