Bugzilla components of retired packages

[Cole Robinson]

On 04/02/2015 10:04 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 04/02/2015 03:37 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
>> Retrieving the list of retired packages from pkgdb is the easy step:
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/#list_packages
>>
>> So this should do it:
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/packages?status=Retired&eol=True
> 
> Thanks. I got a package list in just a few seconds using:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/api/packages?branches=master&branches=f22&branches=f21&branches=f20&status=Retired&limit=500&page=[1-8]
> 
> 
> List: http://fpaste.org/206455/79833981/
> 
> The pkgdb-cli run is halfway done after 12 hours. I wish the cli was a little
> faster.
> 
>> If we want, we can also directly run it against the database (as we do for the
>> pkgdb-sync-bugzilla script), in which case we can use:
>> https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/blob/master/utility/pkgdb-sync-bugzilla#L50-L61
>>
>> to load the pkgdb2 module and then to search the packages use:
>> https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/blob/master/pkgdb2/lib/__init__.py#L667
> 
> That would be ideal, but Bugzilla's 4.4 API doesn't have the feature we need
> AFAIK. 5.0 does.

Pretty sure the bugzilla.redhat.com XMLRPC interface is extended to allow
setting the is_active flag via Component.update. I asked for temporary admin
access on partner-bugzilla.redhat.com once and IIRC it was one of the things I
tested, but it was over two years ago at this point.

- Cole