Re: feature requests galore!!!

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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