Hi! Sorry for the self-follow-up... Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 16:03 schrieb Gernot Hillier: I would like to make an additional update to this patch, but I seem to need help from the osc hackers: 1) It turned out, that the error handling should be improved. For example, some SPEC file authors use a macro for the package name and thus, "createpacfromsrcrpm" would use "%{name}" for the package name. I don't think that this rare case has to be really automatically fixed - but at least the user should have a chance to see it and abort the command. 2) Escaping of special characters like "%" should be improved ("100 % Pure Java implementation..." interfering with Python handling of "%" placeholders) I feel that both problems could be solved by using the Package.update_pac_meta method instead of edit_meta - it already does esacping and inserting of meta data with XML-aware code instead of Python placeholders. It also implements simple displaying of meta data and user confirmation before uploading. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to call this method for a new package (despite it has code to create the package on the server) in a clean way. There seems to be no way to create an osc.Package instance for a new package (an existing working directory is needed in the constructor). BTW: In general, I'm not sure whether to implement my stuff as a independent function or as a osc.Package method is preferrable. The current osc/core.py seems to mix both approaches in a way which confuses me... Could some of the osc gurus please help? TIA! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards, Gernot Hillier Embedded Linux Competence Center Siemens AG, CT SE 2 Intranet: http://linux.siemens.de -- Bye, Gernot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help(a)opensuse.org