Yum: search for a package through the disabled repos

Recently, I was searching for a package, it soon turned out that I need to archive this at least for myself. Here is it

Look for all the repos :

[stack@undercloud ~]$ yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.raystedman.net
* extras: mirror.pac-12.org
* updates: mirrors.sonic.net
515 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id repo name status
!base/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Base 9,363
!centos-ceph-jewel/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Ceph Jewel 82
!delorean delorean-python-networking-bigswitch-2dd6c2693b8b203b9ac2148e9747609161514af9 520+236
!delorean-newton-testing/x86_64 dlrn-newton-testing 830+515
!extras/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Extras 264
!rdo-qemu-ev/x86_64 RDO CentOS-7 - QEMU EV 70
!updates/7/x86_64 CentOS-7 - Updates 856
repolist: 11,985

Find a package in disabled repolist

#!/bin/bashset -ex

for i in `yum repolist all | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d '/' -f 1 | sed 's/!//'`;
do
yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="${i}" search $1done

Breaking up the script

1. yum repolist all | awk '{print $1}' --> get the first columns and remove anything after '/'
2. sed 's/!//' remove the annoying ! at the beginning
3. search for the package use -

 yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=$REPONAME search $PACKAGE_NAME

More here

Uploading to gist and sharing

Gist is a cool tool, here we are going to see how to use it from cli and use it as archiving or sharing utility.

Steps - 

• pip install python-gist
• create a personal token at github
• create a .gist file under $HOME with the following content

[gist]
token: 
editor: 

• Now you are set, use the following - 

gist create  - creates a new gist
gist edit    - edit the files in your gist
gist list    - prints a list of your gists
gist clone   - clones a gist
gist delete  - deletes a gist from github
gist files   - prints a list of the files in a gist
gist archive - downloads a gist and creates a tarball
gist content - prints the content of the gist to stdout
gist info    - prints detailed information about a gist
gist version - prints the current version