Re: Accessing changelog info

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:24:55PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Alan Sparks wrote:
> > Can someone provide a reference how to access the "changelog"
> > information using the rpm module?  I see that accessing the header
> > CHANGELOGTEXT, CHANGELOGNAME, etc attributes return lists of data, but I
> > cannot see how to correlate the text/name/date lists.
> > 
> > Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken it should be as simple as:
> 
> changelogtime[X] + changelogname[X] + changelogtext[X] = Line X of the
> changelog.
> 
> 
> Below I've cut-and-pasted a snippet from Fedora Tracker (starting at
> line 352 of repo.py), which stores each package's changelog as a single
> string. There is one gotcha to this, described in the comments.
> 
> P.S. I'm not a python or rpm guru, so if I'm doing anything stupid here,
> let me know. =;)


To get the changelog as a list of tuples you could do:

zip(h["changelogtime"], h["changelogname"], h["changelogtext"])

> 		# I've seen yum headers where changelogs with a single entry
> 		have the timestamp (but not the other stuff)

Hmm, do you have any package examples you could point me at.  

Paul