Re: feature requests galore!!!

Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:12:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.grab
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I think that you are right... With a well crafted query line I can do it in
one connection!

I will look at the code, and see what I can do.

Thanks!
Greg

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:36:10PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
>  This is an interesting rpm query line
> 
> rpm -q --qf "Vendor: %{VENDOR}\n Packager: %{PACKAGER}\nRequires:\n" \
>     --requires --qf "\nProvides:\n"  --provides \
>     -p ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/xchat-1.8.8-5.i386.rpm
> 
>  
>  something like this should be parsable by grab to fill in the hash
>  table.  So inside grab you can use the rpm -q line to grab the header
>  from the package on the remote server....output all the header
>  information you want to stdout....and then parse it with perl into the
>  hash.
>  
>  
> 
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