Hello, Here is my patch for making Yum's output parseable by scripts, thus increasing its scriptability and reusability, and general goodness. I have pretty much given up hope that Mr. Vidal would include it in his Yum tree. I am sending it here so that other people may find it useful, suggest improvements or ways of not reinventing the wheel. This patch adds a --script flag to the yum command. That flag's name was inspired by konsole's own, which enables supplementary DCOP functions in Konsole, increasing its scriptability. Yum's --script flag affects the list command only. The output is tab-delimited, making it easy to parse by sort(1), any shell script, a Perl (gasp!) program, or even, God have mercy on our souls, be imported in Excel. I've included two versions, for patching Yum 2.2 or 2.3. We use them for patching FC4 and RHEL4 yum RPMs. We'd much rather have the patch be accepted upstream than have to ship patched RPMs to our clients, but at least open source gives us that power. *sigh* Comments? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: yum-2.2.1-script.patch Type: text/x-diff Size: 2161 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050805/d363b594/yum-2.2.1-script.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: yum-2.3.2-script.patch Type: text/x-diff Size: 2140 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20050805/d363b594/yum-2.3.2-script.bin
