On 09/12/2011 06:03 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to use the rpm python api and I have a question about retrieving
info from hdrFromFdno
I do hdr = hdrFromFdno(fd), and then I get back a hdr object with lots of
data.
The problem is that it seems that hdr lacks the Requires: parts of the .spec
file. Everything else seems to be there, including the BuildRequires.
The fd is for "rpm-4.8.0-16.el6.src.rpm" which I got from
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/rpm-4.8.0-16.el6.src.rpm
hdr[rpm.RPMTAG_REQUIRES] seems to be the BuildRequires portion of the .spec
when I search for coreutils (one of the Requires packages) in the hdr by
doing: for k in hdr: if isinstance(hdr[k], collections.Iterable): if
'coreutils' in hdr[k]: print k I get nothing
This is the expected behavior: the source rpm does not carry any
information about the binary package(s) that might get produced from it.
The only meaningful requires for a source rpm are its build-requires really.
The information about binary packages is only present in the binary
packages themselves. Some of that information can be retrieved by
parsing the *spec* from an srpm, and inspecting that. For example taking
the above rpm-4.8.0-16.el6.src.rpm, unpack it and then you can do:
>>> import rpm
>>> spec = rpm.spec("rpm.spec")
>>> for p in spec.packages:
... print p.header['requires']
...
['coreutils', 'db4-utils', 'popt', 'curl', '/bin/sh']
['rpm', 'libcap(x86-64)', '/sbin/ldconfig', '/sbin/ldconfig']
['rpm', 'popt-devel(x86-64)', 'file-devel(x86-64)']
['rpm', 'elfutils', 'binutils', 'findutils', 'sed', 'grep', 'gawk',
'diffutils', 'file', 'patch', 'unzip', 'gzip', 'bzip2', 'cpio', 'lzma',
'xz', 'pkgconfig', '/usr/bin/gdb-add-index']
['rpm']
[]
['crontabs', 'logrotate', 'rpm']
[]
Do note that the headers from a parsed spec will miss lots of
information: there are no file lists, no autogenerated dependencies etc.
For those you need to look at the actual binary packages.
- Panu -
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