Michael,

This is planned to be fixed on next version of SL.

Thanks for reporting this problem.

-connie
On Tue, 10 May 2005, 
Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi Connie,
> 
> > Michael,
> > 
> > On Sat, 7 May 2005, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've just noticed that the following script:
> > > 
> > > /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py
> > > 
> > > which allows for the query of "packages -> CD's", doesn't seem to work with 
> > > SL.
> > 
> > What does it do wrong?
> 
> It doesn't do what it's supposed to ie. this is a script which when supplied
> with a package name, returns the CD that the package exists on, as running it
> shows:
> 
> /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py <package> [headerlist]
> where <package> is the package you're looking for and
> [headerlist] is optionally the location of the header list
> (defaults to the one in /usr/share/comps
> 
> For a real life example on an FC3 machine:
> 
> # /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py samba
> samba-3.0.8-0.pre1.3.i386.rpm is on disc 1
> 
> On an SL4 machine:
> 
> # /usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py samba
> samba-3.0.10-1.4E.i386.rpm is on disc []
> 
> Looking in the /usr/share/comps/i386 directory on the FC3 machine:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   605453 Nov  4  2004 comps.xml
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  9429444 Nov  4  2004 hdlist
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 23730748 Nov  4  2004 hdlist2
> 
> Looking in the /usr/share/comps/i386 directory on the SL4 machine:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   488823 Apr 22 05:01 comps.xml
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  8258168 Apr 22 05:01 hdlist
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 20532860 Apr 22 05:01 hdlist2
> 
> So it seems the files are there but the script isn't working.
> 
> Michael.
> 
>