Re: Patch to add install action to packages:

[Phil D'Amore]

Thanks.  This is kind of odd, because these names appear to follow the 
standard N-V-R convention of RPM.  My code relies on the whole N-E:V-R 
(Name-Epoch:Version-Release) working "properly", which I suspect is 
where the breakdown may be happening.  Can I get you to do the same 
thing, but this time with a queryformat:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n"

This is similar to what cfengine does to get the version information, 
but I added the name part in here so I can still see it for comparison.  
Epoch is a bloody mess, and if it turns out I need to add a way to 
ignore the epoch in order to make some variants of RPM work properly, I 
should be able to do so without breaking the existing interface.

Thanks again!

Mark Burgess wrote:

> > From rpm -qa
>
>
> gcc-c++-3.3.4-11
> xine-lib-0.99.rc6a-4.2
> canna-libs-3.7p3-3
> xemacs-packages-info-20040202-57
> alsaplayer-0.99.76-70
> kdelibs3-3.3.0-34.3
> release-notes-9.2-21.6
> libopencdk-0.5.4-4
> perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-552
> perl-Net-DNS-0.48-2
> gnome-panel-2.6.2-43
> yelp-2.6.1-6
> libsoup-2.2.0-3.2
> samba-client-3.0.9-2.3
> mc-4.6.0-332.2
> iproute2-2.4.7-870.4
> db41-devel-4.1.25-75
> python-2.3.4-3.2
>
>
> M
>
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 18:00 -0500, Phil D'Amore wrote:
>  
>
> > Out of curiosity, can you post an example?  I've never seen their naming
> > convention.
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:16, Mark Burgess wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I was trying to use this on SuSE recently, whihc also uses RPM but it does not
> > > work because the package naming convention is different, There is clearly
> > > a lot to be done on the matter of package management,
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Phil D'Amore wrote:
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > I used RPM as an example here, but all three supported package managers
> > > > > *should* work.  You can actually use more than one package manager at
> > > > > once, since each keeps its own to-be-installed list.  If folks could
> > > > > test the Debian and Sun parts of this, it'd be greatly appreciated, as I
> > > > > don't really have the facilities to do so ;).  Most of the code for this
> > > > > is package manager agnostic, except for the part that decides which
> > > > > variable to read for the install command (RPMInstallCommand,
> > > > > DPKGInstallCommand, SUNInstallCommand), so I'm expecting it will Just
> > > > > Work (tm).
> > > > >          
> > > > I realize that I'm not up to speed on the packages section and its 
> > > > support - but there are more than three package formats.
> > > >
> > > > Beyond the three listed above, I can think of several:
> > > >
> > > > * HP-UX software depots
> > > > * FreeBSD packages
> > > > * Slackware packages
> > > >
> > > > And this doesn't account for alternative installation programs, although 
> > > > that may not be relevant - RPMInstall command could be set to "apt-get 
> > > > install" for instance.
> > > >
> > > > However, I find the names "RPMInstallCommand" et al to be just ghastly. 
> > > >  What if RPM is phased out and replaced with the new name 
> > > > FooBarPackageMgr?  What if someone installs RPM on a SUN machine?  What 
> > > > if someone installs RPM onto Debian and uses it?  More importantly, how 
> > > > are you EVER going to be able to get ALL package managers represented?
> > > >
> > > > The commands ought to be package manager neutral, should they not?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > David Douthitt
> > > > UNIX System Administrator
> > > > Linux+, LPIC-1, RHCE
> > > > HP-UX, Unixware, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
> > > > Member: ACM, USENIX/SAGE
> > > >
> > > >
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