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

[richard rigby]

On 18/01/12 18:54, David Nutter wrote:
> 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,
>

hi david,

excellent work - have just downloaded and updated, and all seems to be 
working well again, thanks for your efforts.

i noticed there is a new requirement for python-lxml, which we didn't 
have installed, but all is now back up and running.

thanks again,

richard