Re: package count
Daniel Veillard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.metadata |
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 06:43:24PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > a while back I mentioned including a package count. > > So I've done this but it's not the nicest thing in the world. > > When it generates the package count it puts it at the top of the xml > like: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <metadata xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/common" packages="13"> > > the problem is that if there is an error on any of the packages and it > can't include it then that number is decremented by that package and is > therefore incorrect. > > > The only other real way is to write out the xml w/o it, take the final > package count, read the file back in and edit it. > > not the nicest thing in the world. > > I could of course do some ugly things with a regex to make it precise > but.... > > open to other suggestions. Just say it's indicative not normative, after all the goal is to be able to make a progress bar :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [email protected] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/