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The included patch fixes the RSS generation for yum making it compatible with Firefox's Live Bookmarks, as well as improving the visual appearance in Sage.
Created attachment 109831 [details] Patch to yum for RSS generation
So I like the top part of your patch. Sorting by day to print the most recent ones in the list first. That makes sense. I'm a bit confused by the second part. It seems a bit odd to remove the xhtml tag to allow it to be prettier in sage. Wouldn't it make more sense to fix Sage to work better with xhtml inside rss feeds? And what's wrong with the package being keyed on the pkgid?
Ah ha - I just pulled it up in sage - I can see why that might be annoying. Are you sure it's not just a problem in sage? Liferea appears to render it correctly as does the feedparser used in the planetplanet code.
The main problem isn't Sage, it's Live Bookmarks. It likes neither the body nor guid tags.
It seems to not have a problem with the live bookmarks and guid tags from: http://fedoraproject.org/people/rss20.xml
I don't see any body tags in that feed. And I didn't completely diagnose what the issue was with the guid tag.
Huh. The guid needs a protocol in front of it. "sha1:" anyone?
And while we're at it, it would be handy to be able to specify the channel's title, link, and description on the command-line, as well as override the URL used in the item link and be able to specify a suffix, e.g., ".html".
How about this. I think I'm going to pull the generate-rss support from yum. I wrote this last night: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/misc/repo-rss.py Would you care to spruce that up nicely?
Created attachment 111320 [details] Spruced-up RSS generation script Mmm... spruce... Looks like there's a small bug in the OptionParser bit whereby it prints "%default" instead of the default. Maybe it's because I'm on 2.3.4 still. But the rest looks good and works great.
Oh, and the -r option appears to be broken. I don't think this is the scripts fault though. Maybe it's yum's. I'm running 2.1.13.
Created attachment 111865 [details] Latest revision of repo-rss.py Just thought I'd add the latest revision I made. Now adds the option to specify a base URL for e.g. if you're generating the RSS against files on a drive but need the links to point to files on the web.
The rss stuff is no longer in yum itself. If there are problems with the code in yum-utils, please file a report about that.