[AutoQA] #295: Provide proper functions for ENVRA manipulation - autoqa-devel - Fedora mailing-lists

28 Mar 2011


      #295: Provide proper functions for ENVRA manipulation
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 Reporter:  kparal       |       Owner:             
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  Finger Food
Component:  core         |    Keywords:             
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 Some testcases need to manipulate ENVRA names, like stripping epoch,
 stripping architecture, detecting whether build name contains epoch,
 parsing out package name, etc. The current implementation (taken from
 depcheck) is clearly sub-optimal, because it doesn't reflect the full RPM
 naming spec, just the most widespread usage (e.g. can colon be part of
 NVR, except for separating epoch?):
{{{
 def strip_epoch(rpmstr):
     return rpmstr.split(':',1)[-1] # works for E:N-V-R.A or N-V-R.A
 def strip_arch(rpmstr):
     return rpmstr.rsplit('.',1)[0]
 }}}
Let's create one or more methods for these tasks in our library and let's
 use rpmUtils module in them. That ensures that the correct algorithms for
 detecting epochs, names, releases, etc are used.
Most of the use cases for those methods have been mentioned in the
 description, but search through available code whether some more use cases
 are needed.
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Ticket URL: https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/295
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