FC2 RPM package list and XML

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:56, Gilles FABIO wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I would like to generate an XML file containing the Fedora Core 2
> package list (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list) with the
> structure like this :
> 
> <pkglist>
> 	<package name="" version="">
> 		<summary>French summary</summary>
> 	</package>
> </pkglist>
> 
> I tried the option command --queryformat but this command works on the
> RPM database (installed packages) not with a directory which contains
> all packages of the distribution. I can't install all packages on my
> distribution for various reasons. How could I do ? Do you know a URL
> which can help me ? 

rpm -qp --queryformat "yourformat" *.rpm


But I have to ask, what is your goal in generating this xml file?

-sv