The updates firehose

[Don Russell]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Don Russell (fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com) said: 
>   
>> What I *would* like (just started thinking about it) is a procmail 
>> recipe to divide the  announcement e-mails into "installed" and "not 
>> installed" packages.
>>     
>
> Well, there's no guarantee that you're reading the mail on the
> box in question, etc. Perhaps something utilizing yum-updatesd
> might be better?
>   

Actually I can guarantee that because sendmail/procmail runs on my 
Fedora box... I access my e-mail via IMAP.
But, I see your point in general applications... if I have F7 on my 
laptop for example, that mail-sorting method won't be accurate. But, for 
what I want... it's perfect. :-)


>   
>> For example... I received an e-mail with this subject:
>> Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-8.fc7
>>
>> Thats great... very consistent subject patterns, but from a programming 
>> point of view, how do I know where the program name ends (so I can use 
>> it with an rpm -q command to see if it is installed), and where the 
>> version number starts (so I can compare it with the results of rpm -q)? 
>> It would help is there was a blank between program name and version 
>> number... or even more explicit:
>> Fedora 7 Update: xorg-x11-server Version: 1.3.0.0-8.fc7
>>     
>
> echo "xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-8.fc7" | awk -F '-' '{ print gensub("-"," ",NF-2) }'
>
> There are certainly simpler ways.
>   

Thanks.... I found a way to easily extract the info from the message boy 
using native procmail syntax.