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

Actually i think i'm going to just directly use the rpm tools, we
already have a partial implementation of that in our test suite, going
to overhaul it and use it for the batch testing.

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:33:11 -0500, "Jeff Johnson" <[email protected]>
said:
> 
> 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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