On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:26:38PM -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> pam>coreutils \
> openldap>cyrus-sasl \
> openldap>cyrus-sasl-md5 \
> openjade>docbook-dtds \
...
> lvm2>kernel-PAE
>
> Which in format looks exactly like the value of the
> %_dependency_whiteout macro we set
Not quite. Even in """...""", \ is an escape char. This means that
the whiteout variable becomes more like:
>>> print whiteout
pango-gtkbeta-devel>pango-gtkbeta XFree86>Mesa
xorg-x11>Mesa compat-glibc>db2
compat-glibc>db1 pam>initscripts
initscripts>sysklogd
You don't need to include the literal \ in the file -- when you read
it in with the \ there, you will literally get:
>>> print whiteout
pam>coreutils \
openldap>cyrus-sasl \
openldap>cyrus-sasl-md5 \
openjade>docbook-dtds \
So - nuke the \s from your file, or use "whiteout = whiteout.replace('\\', '')"
in the script.
Cheers,
Matt
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Matt Wilson
Founding Engineer
rPath, Inc.
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