[issue51] More friendly gui ?

[Eric Brunson]

Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> Michael Mansour wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
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>>> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 5:19 pm, Michael Mansour wrote:
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>>>> Hi Jon,
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>>>>> web based is an option. but that might require a daemon (not sure on
>>>>> that). it would certainly require smart to listen on a particular
>>>>> port from local host
>>>>> (mush the same way X listens to port 6000).
>>>>>           
>>>> One of the main things I like about yum, is an add-on called pakiti (used
>>>> to be called yumit). Nightly checks are run in the normal way, but are
>>>> logged to a MySQL database which can be viewed via a webpage, so you can
>>>> see which systems (almost any linux based systems) which need updating from
>>>> a webpage.
>>>>
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>>> There are many yum guis.  FC5 comes with yumex, which is pretty good.
>>>       
>> Yes I know, but I'm not coming from the angle of a desktop user.
>>
>> None of the yum gui's give you a web page view of your entire environment,
>> pakiti is the only one that does. When you're running a large number of
>> servers (anywhere from 5 - 1000's), local gui's are of no help and a wholistic
>> view of the environment one of the only things that matters.
>>     
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> Well technically, a web UI is very feasible.
> Would just need to use an embeddable webserver in pure Python.
>   
A server daemon is overkill.  You could run it out of inetd like swat.
> Twisted would do.
> Actually a lot more could be done, like a Jabber bot (also using Twisted).
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> But the main issue with those UIs is threading/parallelization. I don't think smart has been
> designed to handle several operations at the same time, possible by different people, on the same
> RPM/dpkg/... database, etc...
>
> cheers
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