Re: Re[2]: Release 1.0 TODO and Maven 2.0 upgrade

On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Nikita wrote:

> Hello Yannick,
>
> There are such formats - hdlist (plain headers with or without magics)
> and yum xml files (three xml.gz files). If you find header list in
> both formats than you will be able to test big portion of rpm headers.
>

Neither hdlists or yum xml files are effective tests of *.rpm metadata,
as both are incomplete.

73 de Jeff
>
> YM> Thanks, that's appreciated :)
>
> YM> I was thinking it would be useful to make a *big* batch test  
> against the
> YM> native rpm, for example against the whole redhat rpm repository.
>
> YM> In order to do that, would need to:
>
> YM> 1) Extract all information from the rpms using the native rpm
> YM> (everything except the payload itself, but including an MD5 of the
> YM> payload), to a easily parsable format (xml for example)
>
> YM> 2) Use the java rpm to extract all information, and compare  
> with what
> YM> the native one generated
>
> YM> 3) Do the same thing in reverse (use jrpm to extract  
> information, use
> YM> native rpm to check that information is correct)
>
> YM> Do you know if there is an easy way to do the native part of  
> testing ?
>
>
>
> -- 
>
>  Nikita
>
>
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