On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:40 AM, js jsh@interlug.net wrote:
If you think the "centos community" is some guys who count the number of srpms in a ftp server; ok, we can close the discussion; talk to a wall is a waste of time.
Unless yours truly has missed the boat, the nut of the problem Johnny assigned to us want-2-b helpers as our homework is understanding the field structure of the .src.rpm in order to generate which rev to build from, e.g.,
bind-9.2.4-16.EL4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-20.EL4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-24.EL4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-27.0.1.el4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-28.0.1.el4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-28.el4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4_7.1.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4_7.2.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.5.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4_8.6.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-30.el4.src.rpm bind-9.2.4-37.el4.src.rpm
and
vixie-cron-4.1-36.EL4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-44.EL4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-47.EL4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-49.EL4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-50.el4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-57.el4.src.rpm vixie-cron-4.1-58.el4.src.rpm
IOW, it doesn't appear to be a problem for which a simple 'cut' works. Both rpm and yum understand how to parse, but this poster doesn't at this time. One approach might be to build an rpm database and then yum it to find out what it would install.
I think it fair to assume Johnny won't be hinting about how to do this, but has essentially crafted a homework exercise that tests us want-2-b helpers to determine if we can even determine which packages need to be included in the process.
regards/ldv/vaden@texoma.net
vaden@turtlehill:~/work-for-johnny-4.9-srpm-list$ wc -l *.list 880 centos.list 275 centos-updates.list 3266 combined.list 2601 combined.uniq.list 2111 redhat.list 9133 total