how to get information out of koji with less pain?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed May 6 12:43:37 UTC 2009


On Wed, 6 May 2009, James Laska wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 May 2009, James Laska wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:30 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > > p.s.  what's the point of that search box anyway?  if i type in
> > > > "kernel", i get no hits.  what's up with *that*?
> > >
> > > It depends on what's selected in the drop down list (Packages, Builds,
> > > Users, Tags etc...).  If I search for "kernel" with Packages selected,
> > > it takes me to
> > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8.
> >
> >   ok, that works but there's still some weirdness happening.  if i
> > try the same thing with "kernel-devel", i get no hits, even though
> > i *just* downloaded that from koji minutes ago.  why wouldn't the
> > "kernel-devel" package be found?
>
> When searching by Package, I believe that means searching by src.rpm
> name.  If you want to search for binary packages (like the packages
> build from a src.rpm), try changing the search target from
> "Packages" to "RPMs".
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?match=glob&type=rpm&terms=kernel-devel*
>
> >   and the package i'm really looking for is "kernel-firmware",
> > which is a listed dependency of the koji kernel package.  if i
> > can't find the kernel-firmware package, i'm kind of stuck trying
> > to install the kernel package.
>
> I *think* kernel-firmware is a noarch package, you might try adding
> "--arch noarch" to the koji command.

  adding options to the koji command doesn't make much sense in the
context of a search using the text box.  but here's where it gets
*really* weird.

  if i search (graphically) for "kernel-firmware" as an RPM, i get no
hits.  if, on the other hand, i search for the RE "kernel-f*", it
shows up.  the obvious test is then to search for "kernel-firmware*"
as an RPM, which finds it.  that's just weird.  and totally
non-intuitive.

  is it possible that that just happens to me?  can anyone else
reproduce that?

rday
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