On 01/22/2015 10:10 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
Hello! Is there anybody alive here ?
I am taking over maintainership of Cygwin version of RPM and i am thinking
about a tool to automatically convert an SRPM into Cygwin's native Cygport
package.
I have looked at Python scripting possibilities and RPM v4.12 offers
everything needed except for one "little" thing. File list in package header
appears to empty. I have studied the C code, file list is stored internally
in Package.fileList field (where Package is wrapped into what is rpm.spec on
Python side), and package header gets populated only when the package is
actually built.
What about adding an API to be able to read %files sections of the spec ?
This is not a plain help request, i can do the implementation myself, just i
would like the change to be upstreamed.
The %files list is dynamic, and can even be computed in %build (often
done for python packages). So, while getting the string may be
straightforward, interpreting it is not. What about building through
the install stage on a native RPM system to extract an expanded list?
Otherwise, you'll probably end up doing heuristics, with manual override.
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