accessing package info from koji

[Oliver Falk]

On 12/17/2007 07:13 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> I've been working on a new version of createrepo that uses the yum
> modules to read in the package metadata. It's not really changing
> createrepo fundamentally it just simplifies the code and reduces a lot
> of duplication b/t createrepo and yum. However, one of the things that
> comes out of this is the ability to create 'fake' yum package objects
> comprised of data sucked directly out of koji.
> 
> The idea is that instead of getting a list of pkgs, getting the metadata
> from them, then putting that metadata into the repodata xml format you
> could just connect to koji with a list of specific packages you wanted,
> request where the packages exist on disk (or a url to retrieve them) and
> all the package metadata directly. 
> 
> anyway -for simplicity purposes it would be most convenient to do this
> by forming an xml-rpc connection to koji and asking it for all the
> required metadata for any particular package.
> 
> Right now the simplest way would be to have the xml-rpc connecting
> module create a yum packgeobject and just submit it to the existing
> class.
> 
> So, what I'm wondering is:
> 1. is all of this info available from inside koji?
> 2. is it possible to connect to the xml-rpc interface anonymously?
> 3. will it actually be faster or at least better to do this at all?

Well. What info do you need? You might have a look into koji list-api!

Basic info:
[oliver at tuborg ~]$ koji rpminfo openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha
RPM: openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha [34056]
RPM Path:
/mnt/koji/packages/openssl/0.9.8b/17.fc8/alpha/openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.alpha.rpm
SRPM: openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8 [12593]
SRPM Path:
/mnt/koji/packages/openssl/0.9.8b/17.fc8/src/openssl-0.9.8b-17.fc8.src.rpm
Built: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:36:26 CEST
Payload: fc0d712476cfa8d19984a7a96fc355f3
Size: 1625947
Build ID: 12593

And eg for dependencies:
[oliver at tuborg ~]$ koji call getRPMDeps 34056
[{'flags': 16384, 'name': '/bin/sh', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 1344, 'name': '/sbin/ldconfig', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 4416, 'name': '/sbin/ldconfig', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 268435464,
  'name': 'config(openssl)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.0)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.1)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384,
  'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.1.3)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.3)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384,
  'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.3.4)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libc.so.6.1(GLIBC_2.4)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libcom_err.so.2', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libcrypto.so.6', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1(GLIBC_2.0)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libdl.so.2.1(GLIBC_2.1)', 'type': 0,
'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libgssapi_krb5.so.2', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libk5crypto.so.3', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384,
  'name': 'libk5crypto.so.3(k5crypto_3_MIT)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libkrb5.so.3', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384,
  'name': 'libkrb5.so.3(krb5_3_MIT)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libresolv.so.2.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libssl.so.6', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'libz.so.1', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 0, 'name': 'mktemp', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 16777290,
  'name': 'rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': '3.0.4-1'},
 {'flags': 16777290,
  'name': 'rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)',
  'type': 0,
  'version': '4.0-1'},
 {'flags': 16384, 'name': 'rtld(GNU_HASH)', 'type': 0, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 268435464,
  'name': 'config(openssl)',
  'type': 1,
  'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'lib4758cca.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libaep.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libatalla.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libchil.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libcrypto.so.6', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libcswift.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libgmp.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libnuron.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libssl.so.6', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libsureware.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 32768, 'name': 'libubsec.so', 'type': 1, 'version': ''},
 {'flags': 8, 'name': 'openssl', 'type': 1, 'version': '0.9.8b-17.fc8'}]



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