On 25 Sep 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:23, Aaron Bennett wrote: > > Hello -- > > > > I'm writing a cgi script that generates a customized kickstart > > configuration file. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about parsing > > the comps file? > > > > do this: > > wait for 8.0 - parse the xml comps file. > > that will make the cgi script more easy w/less pain and you can do wacky > dependency catching stuff in the script. > > look at comps.py that is in rhpl and is used by redhat-config-packages > in TNV/8.0 Yup, if you're using python then parsing the new comps.xml is ridiculously easy. A simple example how to use it is my metapackage (Debian style task- packages) generator: http://koti.welho.com/pmatilai/comps2task/comps2task.py -- - Panu -
