[Rpm-metadata] scripts and options

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Fri Nov 14 17:07:52 UTC 2003


seth vidal wrote:

>Hey,
> I was trying to write up all the things I wanted to have as options to
>the rpm-md-dump script to make creating a repository very simple and so
>I have the final steps I need to take to finish out the scripts.
>
>Here is rough sketch:
>
>genPkgMetadata [--urlbase='some path'] [--exclude='some wildcard'] dir
>genRepoMetadata --basefile= --fileslist= --otherfile= [--groupsfile=]
>(maybe --gpgkey=, allowed multiple times) --output=
>
>so the first script generates your package metadata, obviously and dumps
>them out to some files in the current dir or maybe in the dir you
>specify. Maybe it outputs the file locations on stdout when it's done.
>
>The second script generates the repository metadata and writes it out
>where --output points to.
>
>Does that make any sense? Does anyone even care?
>  
>

Config the gook, use something like --config file to use per-invoke 
peculier configgeration.

CLI options are a tar baby, there's always 10 more to do.

73 de Jeff





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