[Yum] createrep question

[Kidwell,jr, Jack]

I am advised to "lawyer up", so I cannot send the raw header dump you
requested. (Pesky non-disclosure agreement.) I am sending an ascii
header dump of the COTS RPM tags and their respective value data type. A
few generic tag values are exposed. Also attached is the script that
dumps these headers.

>From these tags observe that there is no 'sourcerpm' or 'sourcepackage'
tag.

I apologize for being obtuse.

Thanks for your help!

Jack 


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[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.baseurl.org] On Behalf Of Seth Vidal
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:30 PM
To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
Subject: Re: [Yum] createrep question



On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Kidwell,jr, Jack wrote:

> The master himself! Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> Since it's COTS, I cannot provide the RPM. The vendor appears to offer
an RPM as an afterthought; their principal market is Windows.
>
> I've patched our createrepo to relax this behavior with a command line
option. Would this be useful to others?
>

I suspect 'relaxing' that behavior will result in other 'interesting' 
results/behavior.

If you cannot provide the actual rpm - how about providing the header of
the rpm?

run this script against the rpm, it'll output a pkgname.hdr file - send
me that file.

thanks,
-sv
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