Don Russell (fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> What I *would* like (just started thinking about it) is a procmail
> recipe to divide the announcement e-mails into "installed" and "not
> installed" packages.
Well, there's no guarantee that you're reading the mail on the
box in question, etc. Perhaps something utilizing yum-updatesd
might be better?
> For example... I received an e-mail with this subject:
> Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-8.fc7
>
> Thats great... very consistent subject patterns, but from a programming
> point of view, how do I know where the program name ends (so I can use
> it with an rpm -q command to see if it is installed), and where the
> version number starts (so I can compare it with the results of rpm -q)?
> It would help is there was a blank between program name and version
> number... or even more explicit:
> Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server Version: 1.3.0.0-8.fc7
echo "xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-8.fc7" | awk -F '-' '{ print gensub("-"," ",NF-2) }'
There are certainly simpler ways.
Bill
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