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You need to strip off two siffixes off the filenames to make it look like
a <code>rpm -qa</code> output.
-The following script will do just that:
+Futhermore, a repository of updates often contains multiple versions of a package
+file.
+You want to make sure that the latest version of each package is recorded in the
+Gnucomo database.
+The (python) script <code>report_repository.py</code> will perfom these tasks:
</para>
<verbatim>
-
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Turn an 'ls' listing of RPM files into an 'rpm -qa' listing
-# Reads a list of filenames, possibly preceeded by a directory and
-# strips the directory path from the beginning and the two suffices
-# from the end of each filename. For example, the name
-# "/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.20-13.7.i686.rpm" gets turned
-# into a simple "kernel-2.4.20-13.7".
-
-while read filename
-do
- case $filename in
- *.src.rpm)
- ;;
-
- *)
- filename=`basename $filename .rpm`
- case $filename in
- *.athlon)
- rpm=`basename $filename .athlon`
- ;;
- *.i386)
- rpm=`basename $filename .i386`
- ;;
- *.i486)
- rpm=`basename $filename .i486`
- ;;
- *.i586)
- rpm=`basename $filename .i586`
- ;;
- *.i686)
- rpm=`basename $filename .i686`
- ;;
- *.noarch)
- rpm=`basename $filename .noarch`
- ;;
- esac
- echo $rpm
- ;;
- esac
-done
-
-</verbatim>
-
-<para>
-Suppose this script is stored as <code>ls-rpm</code>, you can apply it
-like this:
-</para>
-
-<verbatim>
- ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS | ls-rpm | sort | uniq | gcm_input -h redhat-7.3
+ python report_repository.py /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS | gcm_input -h redhat-7.3
</verbatim>
<para>