On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 15:27, Paul Pianta wrote: > hi people > > I would like to be able to determine the size of each package available > in a yum repository - without doing a 'yum info' on each package. I want > to be able to list the available packages on a web page with the size of > the package next to it - then users can check the packages that they > wish to be included in a 'yum update/install xxxx' and click the update > button. > > Firstly I run a 'yum list' to get the list of what is available - and > then run the results through 'rpm -q package[i]' to see if it is > available for install or update (ie. if package exists locally - update, > if not - install). The advantage of this pre-run 'yum list' is that I > have all of the current headers on the client machine. What I then > wanted to do was check header.info and pick out the size of each package > and use it to display on my web page next to the package name. > > Unfortunately package size is not one of the goodies in the header.info > file for each package :\ > > Without hacking pullheaders.py - does anyone have an idea on how I can > get package size info on the client (for the new packages on the yum > server) ? If you can wait a little while this data is in the new xml metadata and will be trivially available in the newer yum. -sv
