[Spacewalk-list] centos-errata.py and announcement list format changes

[David Nutter]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:54:16PM +0000, David Nutter wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As some of you may have noticed the format of the centos-announce
> messages has changed, thus breaking my script that creates errata for
> them (http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/)
> 
> I am working on a fix but unfortunately the changes required are
> fairly involved so it may be a day or two before I have a release
> ready and tested. Apologies for any inconvenience you may experience
> in the meantime.

Hi folks,

A new release is now available (finally):

http://www.bioss.ac.uk/staff/davidn/spacewalk-stuff/

Due to format changes in the centos-announce mailing lists, the
parsing logic has been completely rewritten. It's still horrible
though :)

Also, you will now have to use the "dir" package search strategy as
the other two strategies "spacewalk" and "satellitedir" both rely on
obtaining the md5sum from the centos-announce mailings. Since upstream
now sends sha256 checksums these techniques can't work.

I note with interest various discussions on the CentOS lists about
making errata available in a more useful form. Hopefully my script
won't be required for too much longer.

Regards,

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