On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:21:20AM -0400, Cliff wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > >On 09/02/2009 12:52 AM, Goff, Raal wrote: > >>Hi Everyone, > >> > >>Someone expressed interest in my hacked up version of the centos > >>errata script available here: > >> > >>http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/ > > > >Is there anything that we can do from the CentOS side of things to make > >life easier for people ? so as to not need scraping emails etc ? > > > With slight lounge in cheek (aka joke) - setup a public Spacewalk system > and allow/provide CentOS dumps from it for folks to use with Spacewalk. > > I suspect something easier is say an xml file with data, that folks > could use to parse in a script. >
Much of the work the script does is trying to work out whether a particular errata is applicable to the target distribution on the spacewalk server. Something simple like separate RSS feeds containing errata for each version/arch of CentOS would probably do the trick without having to go to the trouble of developing a custom XML schema for the errata. RSS feeds of errata might also be generally useful. I note this thread from 2007: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2007-September/002001.html Did anything come of this? > A public API that folks could query? This would also do nicely. 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
