Tim: >> Don could parse the whole update message. Don Russell: > Yes, I'm giving that some thought... I'm not sure of exactly how to > parse the text after the checksum.... the dash (-) is not a consistent > delimiter between package name, version, release. That's why I did not > try to parse the subject line in the first place, the body has things > spelled out near the beginning... alas, it's describing the SOURCE... :-( Don't you need the whole name "vim-whatever", not just "whatever"? > So, if I can grab thelist of packages at the end of the e-mail, then > perhaps parse right to left, by dash, into three parts.... > i.e. vim-enhanced-v.v.v-r.r.r > Break that into (right to left: r.r.r, v.v.v and what ever is left after > that is the package name to see if I have it installed. Looking at some of the message contents: 8220d63dc07defafcd8c2f669685ee9643233a8a vim-debuginfo-7.1.12-1.fc7.i386.rpm How about, presuming all the checksums are the same length, there's a blank space between it and package names, using the whole packagename. Of course you'd need to look for lines with them both together. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
