[Bug 1253462] New: Error in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253462

Bug ID: 1253462
           Summary: Error in
                    http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Docum
                    entation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html
           Product: Fedora Documentation
           Version: devel
         Component: rpm-guide
          Severity: low
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]

Created attachment 1062752
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1062752&action=edit
This attachment is a screenshot of a more readable result.

Description of problem:

The Python code section at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_...
has an error in the following code:

# Dependencies
    print "Provides:"
    print h.dsFromHeader('providename')

print "Requires:"
    print h.dsFromHeader('requirename')

if h.dsFromHeader('obsoletename'):
        print "Obsoletes:"
        print h.dsFromHeader('obsoletename')

if h.dsFromHeader('conflictname'):
        print "Conflicts:"
        print h.dsFromHeader('conflictname')

print h.dsFromHeader('conflictname') outputs <rpm.ds object at 0xb77584b8>.

h.dsFromHeader('conflictname'), without the "print" word, outputs it right.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.1

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the python code from the page to a file called rpminfo.py on a computer
that has the older version of Python, Python 2.
2. Run the Python code, by running the "cd" command until you get to the folder
that contains rpminfo.py.  
3. Run rpminfo.py by entering the command python rpminfo.py.

Actual results:

Provides:
<rpm.ds object at 0xb77584b8>
Requires:
<rpm.ds object at 0xb77584b8>

Expected results:

Provides:
P config(httpd) = 2.2.15-39.el6.centos
Requires:
R libapr-1.so.0

Additional info:

The members of the object returned by dsFromHeader have integer indexes, since
the following code produces a more readable result:

# Dependencies
    print "Provides:"
    print h.dsFromHeader('providename')[0]

print "Requires:"
    print h.dsFromHeader('requirename')[0]

[Bug 1253462] Error in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253462

Nathan Basanese  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|                            |Documentation, EasyFix
        Environment|                            |[vagrant@localhost ~]$
                   |                            |python --version
                   |                            |Python 2.6.6
                   |                            |[vagrant@localhost ~]$
                   |                            |uname -a
                   |                            |Linux localhost.localdomain
                   |                            |2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.i686 #1
                   |                            |SMP Wed Jul 15 10:55:56 UTC
                   |                            |2015 i686 i686 i386
                   |                            |GNU/Linux
         Whiteboard|                            |<rpm.ds object at
                   |                            |0xb77584b8>
              Flags|                            |needinfo?

--- Comment #1 from Nathan Basanese  ---
Much of this documentation's out of date.

I'm filing this bug to test the waters, and to see whether it's worth the time
to file more.

[Bug 1253462] Error in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253462

Brian Exelbierd  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
              Flags|needinfo?                   |

--- Comment #2 from Brian Exelbierd  ---
(In reply to Nathan Basanese from comment #1)
> Much of this documentation's out of date.
>
> I'm filing this bug to test the waters, and to see whether it's worth the
> time to file more.

I realize it has been a while on this.  If you're interested in resurrecting
the RPM guide and working on it, please contact me or
[e-mail] and we will get you setup with an asciibinder repo
to work against.

[Bug 1253462] Error in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253462

--- Comment #3 from Petr Kovar  ---
(In reply to Brian Exelbierd from comment #2)
> I realize it has been a while on this.  If you're interested in resurrecting
> the RPM guide and working on it, please contact me or
> [e-mail] and we will get you setup with an asciibinder
> repo to work against.

I'd suggest contributing to
https://github.com/redhat-developer/rpm-packaging-guide/ instead, which is a
guide with a similar scope and is being actively worked on.

[Bug 1253462] Error in http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch16s03s05.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253462

Petr Kovar  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
        Last Closed|                            |2017-12-14 05:28:05

--- Comment #4 from Petr Kovar  ---
The RPM Guide has been deprecated in favor of
https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/.

Closing the issue here.