Config::YUM is a Perl extension for parsing yum.conf.

SYNOPSIS

use Config::YUM;

my $yp = new Config::YUM;
my $yum_conf = $yp->parse();

foreach(keys %{$yum_conf}) {
print "Section: $_ is called " . $yum_conf->{$_}->{name} . "n";
}

$yum_conf will be a a hash, all INI sections are the primary hash keys.
include= will be automatically downloaded merged with the local yum.conf
mirrorlists will also be downloaded and saved as an array in $yum_conf->{somerepo}->{baseurls}
the first url in mirrorlists will be safed as $yum_conf->{somerepo}->{baseurl}.
exclude statements will be splited and safed to $yum_conf->{somerepo}->{exclude_hash}. Note that we
safe a perl regex string as keys here.

To say it with one sentence. Config::YUM automatically parses a yum.conf does the downloading and provides you
with a ready to use perl hash. :-)

You can define a few things @ new:

- use_cache: 0/1 (1 will enable, default: 0; Uses Cache::File)

- yum_conf: path to your yum.conf (default: /etc/yum.conf)

- yum_repos_d: path to your yum.repos.d (default: /etc/yum.repos.d)

- agent: You LWP::UserAgent agent string (default: Config::YUM/$VERSION)

- releasever: Define your RH/FC release version (rpm -qf --queryformat %{VERSION} /etc/redhat-release; Default: automatically queried)

- basearch: Define your basearch (uname -i; Default: automatically discovered)

- download_primary: Define if we should download/parse the primary.xml.gz

These arguments can be specified this way (dont forget the {!)
my $yp = new Config::YUM({
use_cache => 1,
yum_conf => /etc/yum.conf,
yum_repos_d => /etc/yum.repos.d,
agent => MyProgram/$VERSION,
relasever => 4,
basearch => i386,
download_primary => 1
});

This module provides you with a few functions,
parse() will return a hash containing the allready parsed local/remote yum.conf.

yumconf_local() will return a hash containing the allready parsed local yum.conf (Will run parse(), if you didnt yet)
yumconf_remote() will return a hash containing the allready parsed remote yum.conf (Will run parse(), if you didnt yet)