Re: feature requests galore!!!

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 14:02, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 01:43:46PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> > So you are saying i have to download the summary information while in
> > the grab list......
> > hmmm now that you are doing local dependancy caching could you cache
> > some of the discriptive tags like the ones that show up in the rpm -qi
> > summary.  You are already caching the provides and requires tags....i
> > think it would make more sense to cache the description tag as well
> > during the grab --update cycle....since that has to save on network
> > overhead...and gives me scriptability.
> > 
> 
> Rather than caching Yet More Glop from headers, download and install
> the specspo package. In fact, if specspo is installed, you'll end up
> re-caching info that is already in a specspo PO file.
> 
> rpm (for quite a while now) uses summary/description/group tags from
> specspo, not from package headers, if specspo is installed.
> 
> It also ain't hard to access this info using dcgettext from gettext rather
> than headerGetEntry from rpmlib. Poke me if you need details.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 73 de Jeff
> 
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