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

[David Nutter]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:28:33PM -0800, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:30 AM, David Nutter <david.nutter at bioss.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:49:43AM +0000, richard rigby wrote:
> >>
> >> hi david,
> >>
> >> excellent work - have just downloaded and updated, and all seems to be
> >> working well again, thanks for your efforts.
> >
> > Thanks :)
> >
> >> i noticed there is a new requirement for python-lxml, which we didn't
> >> have installed, but all is now back up and running.
> >
> > Ah yes, that's just to aid the screen scraping of stuff downloaded
> > from the RedHat site. I will mention it in the docs for version
> > 0.7. Release is hopefully imminent, just awaiting test results now.
> 
> Question - given that it focuses on the centos-announce mailing list,
> when the CentOS project gets caught in a version squeeze (like when
> RHEL 6.2 was released and CentOS didn't have 6.1 out the door yet),
> they activate the CR repository.  Those announcements are made to the
> centos-cr-announce mailing list.  Are there any plans to have an
> option to utilize those archives?  Currently, I just make a copy of
> the centos-errata.py script and edit it by hand, but it's something I
> have to do for each version upgrade.  Of course, if this script is
> eventually going away this may not be necessary, but...

Yes, that's what I do too, though I support could definitely be
better! 

Just activating a different config gets you most of the way there but
the regexes have to change which is perhaps a bit too "involved" for
general use. 

So, how would you like such a feature to work?

My first thought would be to give the tool a --cr option and add
additional [$ARCH-cr] config sections in the config file but I'm open
to suggestions. 

As for the longevity of this script I'll keep maintaining it as long
as I need to. If the CentOS project themselves come out with a
workable solution tomorrow I will happily abandon it.

Regards,

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