[Pulp-list] package metadata parsing refactor

[Mike McCune]

On 07/07/2010 06:23 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 17:22 -0700, Mike McCune wrote:
>> Switched from using python's RPM bindings to reading the metadata out of
>> yum's primary xml information.
>>
>> Unit tests are green and package upload works fine for me.  Let me know
>> if you have issues.
>
>
> you mean out of the repodata. But if the repo is made by anything
> resembling a recent createrepo it is not out of the xml - it's out of
> the sqlite dbs. I only quibble b/c I want to try and stop referring to
> the repodata as xml or sqlite or anything other than repodata so we can
> transition off of any given format w/o a terminology change, too.
>

yes! sorry.  bad terminology.

> Also - in your patch you call:
>
> r.getPackageSack().someotherfunction()
>
> you can just do:
> r.sack.someotherfunction()
>
> sack is a property so it will automatically get instantiated when you
> ask for it.

nice, thanks for taking a look.

Mike