Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml)

[Oden, James]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Philip Prindeville
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:25 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Factoring RPM sets (and parsing comps.xml)
> 
> [previously asked on anaconda-devel without seeing a response...]
> 
> I may have asked this question before, but I don't remember seeing
> an answer that I grokked.  Maybe I didn't ask the question correctly.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> Suppose we have an install disk with a repo on it that specifies the
> following package sets (hypothetically)
> 
> @SYSTEM = sbin sbin-utils sbin-diags devices core modsupport
> @DEVEL-BASE = gcc bin-utils gdb gprof gld
> ...
> 
> I'd like to be able to come up with a compact notation for expressing
> what is on an installed system using the package sets with additions/
> deletions.  For example, suppose the running system has:
It does not exist, that is why no one answered (at least to my
knowledge).

What your looking for is a way of representing sets of
packages/components and then seeing how other sets of
packages/components compare to them.  Perl or Python would be a good
starting place.  

Good Luck...james