Self-Introduction: David Malcolm

[David Malcolm]

Full legal name: 
David Hugh Malcolm

Country, City: 
USA, Boston, though I'm British

Profession or Student status: 
Professional

Company or School: 
Red Hat

Your goals in the Fedora Project:
Help make the Fedora "desktop" insanely great for end-users; get my
mother using it.

Which packages do you want to see published?
I've been packaging Evolution and its dependencies for the last few
months, so I guess I should have sent this email a while back; sorry.  I
want to push python-ldap into the core package set.

Do you want to do QA?
No, though I run Rawhide and try to fix stuff when it breaks.

Anything else special?
I'm the upstream maintainer of Conglomerate (www.conglomerate.org),
which I hack on at weekends, trying to get it more stable.

Historical qualifications
Seven years as a professional games programmer (briefly worked on one of
the "Alien vs Predator" titles, amongst various others); have used Linux
in various forms for about 5 or 6 years now.

What other projects have you worked on in the past?
As discussed above, plus various hacking on random GNOME modules.

What computer languages and other skills do you know?
C, C++, Python, amongst others; know a fair bit about 3D and games, and
about XML.  Been programming for over 20 years :-(

GPG KEYID and fingerprint:
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FC2 RPM package list and XML

[Gilles Fabio]

Hi !

I would like to generate an XML file containing the Fedora Core 2
package list (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list) with the
structure like this :

<pkglist>
	<package name="" version="">
		<summary>French summary</summary>
	</package>
</pkglist>

I tried the option command --queryformat but this command works on the
RPM database (installed packages) not with a directory which contains
all packages of the distribution. I can't install all packages on my
distribution for various reasons. How could I do ? Do you know a URL
which can help me ? 

Greetings,
Gilles

FC2 RPM package list and XML

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 16:56, Gilles FABIO wrote:
>  Hi !
>  
>  I would like to generate an XML file containing the Fedora Core 2
>  package list (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list) with the
>  structure like this :
>  
>  <pkglist>
>  	<package name="" version="">
>  		<summary>French summary</summary>
>  	</package>
>  </pkglist>
>  
>  I tried the option command --queryformat but this command works on the
>  RPM database (installed packages) not with a directory which contains
>  all packages of the distribution. I can't install all packages on my
>  distribution for various reasons. How could I do ? Do you know a URL
>  which can help me ?  
rpm -qp --queryformat "yourformat" *.rpm


But I have to ask, what is your goal in generating this xml file?

-sv

FC2 RPM package list and XML

[Gilles Fabio]

Hi Seth !

>  rpm -qp --queryformat "yourformat" *.rpm
>  
>  
>  But I have to ask, what is your goal in generating this xml file? 
Thanks a lot !!

My goal is to use this XML file with PHP 5 and SimpleXML to generate an
HTML page listing all packages included in Fedora Core (with the summary
of each package in french langage - 'cause I'm french ;o)). 

At this subject, do you know a packager who proposes a RPM package of
PHP5 ? I didn't find any of it :o(

Greetings,
Gilles