On 09/17/2010 05:05 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 17 September 2010 13:36, Arthur Pemberton<pem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Wouldn't that require the tool to download every package just to get >> the embedded information. > Yes, that's what my generator tool does. Of course, it only downloads > the packages that contain .desktop files (which we can tell from the > metadata) otherwise that would take more than ages. > > That could actually even done by createrepo - just in case it runs too fast already. It has to open all the binary rpms anyway and could just sweep through the file list and then - if there are files of interest - open the payload and unpack the content of the desktop files. I have some basic support for reading the pkg content in MY generator tool. May be that can go into the rpm Python binding or some of the yum helper modules.
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