On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:29 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'd a tool that will take an anaconda kickstart file as input (along > with the standard released comps-f7.xml) and generate a new comps.xml > file with only the groups and packages specified in the kickstart file > present in the output comps.xml. > > I've started working on this but my python sucks (and it makes sense for > this to be in python since all the other distro tools are). Is anyone > interested in helping with this? I think the main thing I need is some > example code that uses libxml2 (or something) to read in the comps.xml, > make changes, and then write out a new one. > I've found the xml.dom API to be easier to use than libxml2. Try something like this: import xml.dom.minidom import xml.dom.ext # load the file xmlDoc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(filename) # do stuff to xmlDoc here # write the file back xml.dom.ext.PrettyPrint(xmlDoc, open(filename, "w")) Hope this helps Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
