Jeff Sheltren wrote:
>By the way, it appears that the header files are different
>(./subversion...hdr is downloaded from the repo,
>/root/hdlist-hdrs/subversion...hdr is generated from the hdlist):
># diff subversion-0-0.32.1-1.i386.hdr
>/root/hdlist-hdrs/subversion-0-0.32.1-1.i386.hdr
>Binary files subversion-0-0.32.1-1.i386.hdr and
>/root/hdlist-hdrs/subversion-0-0.32.1-1.i386.hdr differ
>
>
That shouldn't be an issue. Organization of data in hdr file slightly
differs and they may carry slightly different info (e.g. in headers
generated from hdlist* there is no Changelog).
I have a slightly different implementation of the same feature and it
works just fine, including getting rpms from the main repository (not
updates) - I didn't have the time to test new yum version yet - so in
theory it should work ok. I also noticed that hdr files end up being
different but it had no impact on functionality.
There is one thing that I suspect needs to be done in order to get full
file info in headers. I think I added the following because I noticed
that by default headers picked out of the hdlist will not have list of
files in the rpm. This forces expansion (and usually makes resultant
.hdr file much bigger).
--- clientStuff.py.change 2004-02-23 02:13:17.000000000 -0500
+++ clientStuff.py 2004-02-23 17:50:47.000000000 -0500
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@
del fd2
for hdr in hdrlist:
+ hdr.fullFilelist()
hdrobj = rpmUtils.Header_Work(hdr)
(n,e,v,r,a) = hdrobj.nevra()
e = hdrobj.fixedEpoch()
Josko P.
