On 03/20/2009 03:38 PM, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote: > Isn't it possible to figure that out with a bit of bash programming? > Eg., use the 'comm' command. > "comm Compare two sorted files line by line" > > and, if different, a diff could be generated to show you exactly what's > different. > > Doesn't seem like much of a hassle to me. Are you volunteering to do the work then? > How difficult would it be to add functionality in yum: > a.) to store the license value of each program, and > b.) to integrate a license reader for easy access/reading? I'm going to go out on a limb and say this isn't what we want. It will just bloat the yum metadata for a rather minimal benefit. Returning to the original problem, I'd rather see a transaction workflow like this: * Look at what a package has marked as a 'license file' (NOTE: RPM doesn't really have support for this yet) * Compare it against the set of known "Generic" licenses. * If it is an exact match, replace it with a symlink to the Generic license. Now, the problem is that if you do this in yum, you'll break rpm verification of any package handled in such a way. It might be possible to have RPM do this automagically, but I suspect they'd think it is a monstrous hack. There are RPM devs lurking on this list, I wonder if they will chime in. ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
