On 12/17/2007 07:13 AM, seth vidal wrote: > I've been working on a new version of createrepo that uses the yum > modules to read in the package metadata. It's not really changing > createrepo fundamentally it just simplifies the code and reduces a lot > of duplication b/t createrepo and yum. However, one of the things that > comes out of this is the ability to create 'fake' yum package objects > comprised of data sucked directly out of koji. > > The idea is that instead of getting a list of pkgs, getting the metadata > from them, then putting that metadata into the repodata xml format you > could just connect to koji with a list of specific packages you wanted, > request where the packages exist on disk (or a url to retrieve them) and > all the package metadata directly. > > anyway -for simplicity purposes it would be most convenient to do this > by forming an xml-rpc connection to koji and asking it for all the > required metadata for any particular package. > > Right now the simplest way would be to have the xml-rpc connecting > module create a yum packgeobject and just submit it to the existing > class. > > So, what I'm wondering is: > 1. is all of this info available from inside koji? > 2. is it possible to connect to the xml-rpc interface anonymously? > 3. will it actually be faster or at least better to do this at all? Well. What info do you need? You might have a look into koji list-api! Basic info: [oliver@tuborg ~]$ koji rpminfo openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha RPM: openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha [34056] RPM Path: /mnt/koji/packages/openssl/0.9.8b/17.fc8/alpha/openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha.rpm SRPM: openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8 [12593] SRPM Path: /mnt/koji/packages/openssl/0.9.8b/17.fc8/src/openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.src.rpm Built: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:36:26 CEST Payload: fc0d712476cfa8d19984a7a96fc355f3 Size: 1625947 Build ID: 12593 And eg for dependencies: [oliver@tuborg ~]$ koji call getRPMDeps 34056 [{'flags': 16384, 'name': '/bin/sh', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 1344, 'name': '/sbin/ldconfig', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 4416, 'name': '/sbin/ldconfig', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 268435464, 'name': 'config(openssl)', 'type': 0, 'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.0)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.1)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.1.3)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.3)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.3.4)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.4)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libcom_err.so.2', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libcrypto.so.6', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1(GLIBC_2.0)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1(GLIBC_2.1)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libgssapi_krb5.so.2', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libk5crypto.so.3', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libkrb5.so.3', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libresolv.so.2.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libssl.so.6', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libz.so.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 0, 'name': 'mktemp', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 16777290, 'name': 'rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)', 'type': 0, 'version': '3.0.4-1'}, {'flags': 16777290, 'name': 'rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)', 'type': 0, 'version': '4.0-1'}, {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'rtld(GNU_HASH)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 268435464, 'name': 'config(openssl)', 'type': 1, 'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'lib4758cca.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libaep.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libatalla.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libchil.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libcrypto.so.6', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libcswift.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libgmp.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libnuron.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libssl.so.6', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libsureware.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libubsec.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''}, {'flags': 8, 'name': 'openssl', 'type': 1, 'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'}] -of -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list