pkg-owner funny
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jul 9 06:18:04 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:45 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I became a Fedora developer today and so being vane like a goldfish
> I ran to check if my name looked pretty in the package owner field...
> And then this happened:
>
> [zaitcev at porkchop zaitcev]$ pkg-owner fc3 pan
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/pkg-owner", line 23, in ?
> cspec = beehive_pkgset.make_collinfo(dbh, args[0])
> File "/mnt/redhat/beehive/bin/beehive_pkgset.py", line 311, in make_collinfo
> raise Error(errstr, t)
> beehive_pkgset.Error: <beehive_pkgset.Error instance at 0x82281e4: {'text': "Collection `fc3' unknown", 'lines': ['Valid collections:', ' dist', ' powertools', ' playpen', ' k12ltsp', ' docs', ' rhdb', ' gnome', ' ha', ' realaudio', ' ia32_compat', ' kabar', ' kde', ' lacd', ' professional', ' redbaron', ' stronghold', ' secureweb', ' ccm', ' rhn', ' edu', ' k12', ' hwcert', ' gps']}>
> [zaitcev at porkchop zaitcev]$
>
> If you look closely, you can see a message "Collection `fc3' unknown",
> which kind of makes sense, but... what is a known collection then?
> I puzzled a little and remembered that bhc uses dist-X syntax, and
> indeed the following works:
>
> [zaitcev at porkchop zaitcev]$ pkg-owner dist-fc3 pan
> zaitcev at REDHAT.COM
> [zaitcev at porkchop zaitcev]$
>
> What a weird software package we use for everyday work :-)
What is pkg-owner?
-sv
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