Hi all, After nearly a year of shameful idleness, I have finally bestirred myself to produce a new version of the script to coincide with the release of CentOS 5.5. This was in no small part due to Raal Goff, who produced an amended version of the script in November last year. I've taken the liberty of incorporating his changes in this new version. Get it here:
http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/ Improvements: - Multiple architecture support. Please note that I can't test this fully (we're x86_64 only here) but it should work. - (Raal Goff) Scraping of mail-archive.com - (Raal Goff) Scraping of errata details from RedHat. This is off by default. - (Raal Goff) Searching of spacewalk server for packages by matching the checksum. BTW Raal, that is a really clever solution and I tip my hat to you! Please note that directories for package_dir should still exist, but if you are relying on spacewalk for package searches they can be empty. - Improved argument parsing and added support for specifying the config file on the command line. Still TODO: - Better docs (as ever :)) - Facilitate offline testing of mail-archive.com scraping - Support multiple versions of CentOS (e.g. 4 and 5 in the same org). You can sort of do this with 2 config files, one for version 4 and one for version 5 if you really want it. - Make searching of spacewalk or the package directories (or both) configurable at runtime Next steps: Once everyone has had a chance to play with it and find bugs, I will submit this script to the contrib repository and maintain it there in future. Regards, -- David Nutter Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4888 BioSS, JCMB, King's Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EH9 3JZ. Scotland, UK Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) is formally part of The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), a registered Scottish charity No. SC006662 _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list