On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:13, David Golden wrote: > At 1/7/2004 03:55 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > > > What's the proper way? > > > >to use the functions inside yum to get the data you require. > > OK. I have to apologize -- I didn't realize my simple question was going > to hit some nerves. I suppose this will have to wait for the TODO item > "Write up better explanation docs" though... ;-) Or I'll have to pull > down the CVS and wade through it. > no nerve hit. But screenscraping is never reliable b/c output and formatting change so much. That's all. > Personally, I would, though I can't speak for others. Since both yum list > and yum info give repository info, duplicates shouldn't be confusing and > might actually be useful information. ok. Well that's something I can look at doing. I've got some other, higher priority items atm that I'd like to get taken care of. Most importantly if the metadata (http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/readme.metadata) work pans out then the header.info parsing will simply vanish into the ether. -sv
