Oden, James wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list- >>bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Prindeville >>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:25 PM >>To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml) >> >>[previously asked on anaconda-devel without seeing a response...] >> >>I may have asked this question before, but I don't remember seeing >>an answer that I grokked. Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly. >> >>My question is this: >> >>Suppose we have an install disk with a repo on it that specifies the >>following package sets (hypothetically) >> >>@SYSTEM = sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core modsupport >>@DEVEL-BASE = gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld >>... >> >>I'd like to be able to come up with a compact notation for expressing >>what is on an installed system using the package sets with additions/ >>deletions. For example, suppose the running system has: >> >> >It does not exist, that is why no one answered (at least to my >knowledge). > >What your looking for is a way of representing sets of >packages/components and then seeing how other sets of >packages/components compare to them. Perl or Python would be a good >starting place. > >Good Luck...james > > Ok, understood. Well, the code to read the comps.xml file and stick it into a reasonably meaningful datastructure must exist at least, right? I'll dig around the Anaconda and Kickstart sources when I'm back in front of a development machine... hopefully there'll be something that can be reused. -Philip
