Added a few test desriptions.

[gnucomo.git] / doc / manual.xml

diff --git a/doc/manual.xml b/doc/manual.xml
index 26a0567..133eb68 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/manual.xml
+++ b/doc/manual.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <!--
       Gnucomo - Gnu Computer Monitoring Tutorial
       Original author :  Peter Roozemaal
-      Version         : $Revision: 1.5 $
+      Version         : $Revision: 1.6 $
 
       This document is prepared for XMLDoc. Transform to HTML,
       LaTeX, Postscript or plain text with XMLDoc utilities and
@@ -852,62 +852,15 @@ However, you can not use the output from <strong>ls</strong> directly as
 input for <strong>gcm_input</strong>.
 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>