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

[David Nutter]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:54:47PM +0000, David Nutter wrote:

*snip*

> 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.

Hi folks,

I've been informed by a couple of people that there's a bug which
occurs when using multiple architecture flavours of CentOS
(e.g. x86_64 and i386) together. Essentially you only get errata
published for the first one listed.

Unfortunately I can't test this scenario as we're x86_64 only here so
a fix will take a little while as any changes will have to be tested
by an affected user. Working on it though :)

Thanks & regards,

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