[Rpm-metadata] package count

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 06:43:24PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> a while back I mentioned including a package count.
> 
> So I've done this but it's not the nicest thing in the world.
> 
> When it generates the package count it puts it at the top of the xml
> like:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <metadata xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/common" packages="13">
> 
> the problem is that if there is an error on any of the packages and it
> can't include it then that number is decremented by that package and is
> therefore incorrect.
> 
> 
> The only other real way is to write out the xml w/o it, take the final
> package count, read the file back in and edit it.
> 
> not the nicest thing in the world.
> 
> I could of course do some ugly things with a regex to make it precise
> but....
> 
> open to other suggestions.

  Just say it's indicative not normative, after all the goal is to be
able to make a progress bar :-)

Daniel

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