Fedora 7 Update: vim-7.1.12-1.fc7

[Don Russell]

Tim wrote:
> Don Russell:
>   
>>> What would it take to have this package actually be called
>>> vim-enhanced in the update notice?
>>>       
>
> Markku Kolkka:
>   
>> The package name in the notice is the name of the _source_ RPM. 
>> Vim-enhanced and vim-minimal are both built from the same source 
>> package.
>>     
>
> Hmm, I hadn't noticed that before, but it's fairly obvious once you
> think about it (the source would be the thing being directly updated,
> the packages wouldn't be updated by individual tweaks, they'd simply be
> rebuilt from the newer source).  Just looking through some of the
> notices, the message (further down) does list all the packages affected
> by the update, directly.  Don could parse the whole update message.
>   

Yes, I'm giving that some thought... I'm not sure of exactly how to 
parse the text after the checksum.... the dash (-) is not a consistent 
delimiter between package name, version, release. That's why I did not 
try to parse the subject line in the first place, the body has things 
spelled out near the beginning... alas, it's describing the SOURCE... :-(

So, if I can grab thelist of packages at the end of the e-mail, then 
perhaps parse right to left, by dash, into three parts....
i.e. vim-enhanced-v.v.v-r.r.r
Break that into (right to left: r.r.r, v.v.v and what ever is left after 
that is the package name to see if I have it installed.

When I get an e-mail, I can run through the list. If none of those are 
installed, handle the entire message accordingly.