[Yum-devel] searching the packageSack

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 15:27 -0500, Jack Neely wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Was just chatting with Jeremy as I really would like Anaconda to be able
> to figure out what kmod variant to install so that it can handle
> the OpenAFS kmod.  The fedorakmod plugin I wrote handles most of the day
> to day stuff that Yum will do /once the initial modules are installed/.
> 
> Which leads back to where I stopped working on fedorakmod.
> 
> Basically, I do
> 
>     c.getRepos().getPackageSack().searchProvides("kernel-modules")
> 
> to figure out what kmods are avalable.  But this returns a list of
> non-POs made with the db2class() method.  (Which makes my eyes bleed.)
> It doesn't contain ANY prco info but the searchProc() method inserts the
> full name, flags, rel, ver, epoch of the provide I asked for,
> 'kernel-modules'.  I want the requires information (specifically
> 'kernel-<arch>').  
> 
> If Seth is still looking for new stuff to do it would be really great to
> fix the db2class() stuff and provide a way to pull the full package
> information out the the cache for the search results.
> 
> The code I'm whining about is around line 311 in sqlitesack.py.  The
> fedorakmod code is here:
> 
>     https://linuxczar.net/svn/slack/trunk/fedorakmod/fedorakmod.py
> 

Is this against HEAD or 3.0.3?

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