[tools] Request for having plugins for mrepo

[Ian Forde]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 19:09 +0100, apratyaksh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using mrepo for hosting a lot of isos (mostly redhat based ones) 
> and it has been a useful tool.
> I would like to ask for a additional feature in mrepo. A lot of time I 
> have to use some custom  scripts  on the mrepo
> repositories to generate information base on the repository  like the 
> yum/apt configuration files which can be downloaded by users
> or a master boot image which can boot all available distros of a arch 
> (unfortunately our environment cannot use PXE a lot of time) etc.
> 
> Most of the time I have shell scripts ending up in cron jobs, so even 
> after doing a regeneration  of repositories  with mrepo  all is not updated
> as I have to run the cron jobs manually.
> 
> Will it be possible to have some plugins to mrepo or some way to call a 
> external script per repository ?

Why not call your script from within the mrepo cron script to run right
after mrepo itself?

	-I