Re: formatting output in rpm-python?

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:22:05PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:

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> > > What is the preference for using dsFromHeader() instead of grabbing
> > > REQUIRENAME, REQUIREFLAGS and REQUIREVERSION and zipping them together
> > > to make, more or less, the same set of things.
> > > 
> > > I guess I'm just trying to figure out which methods are the 'preferred
> > > ones' and why they're preferred.
> > 
> > Simply because I didn't know. This is indeed clearer (not that much
> > faster though). Now I just have to find out exactly what the numbers in
> > the `REQUIREFLAGS' stand for. Anybody a clue about this?
> > 
> 
> yep. :)
> 
> look at
> 
> http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/generate/dumpMetadata.py?rev=1.9&cvsroot=metadata&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> class RpmMetaData._correctFlags()
> 
> You only need certain data of the flags.

I found that the rpm.RPMSENSE_* constants also do the trick for me...
I'll look closer at the code tomorrow, before my brain explodes :)

thanks,

armijn

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