[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Sat Dec 25 20:20:24 CET 2010

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 06:02:18AM -0500, andre999 wrote:
+> However, invoking the rpm command has certain advantages.
+> Most importantly, if done on the system of the user finding the bug,
+> it reports exactly the correct version of the srpm.
+> 
+> For example, on my system, if I type in the console exactly :
+> 
+> rpm -q --qf '%{sourcerpm}' binutils
+> 
+> _without_ the version, it returns :
+> 
+> binutils-2.19.51.0.2-1mnb2.src.rpm
+> 
+> _with_ the version, which is exactly what we want.
+> 
+> So I have a suggestion.
+> With your Ajax skills, I imagine that you would be capable of
+> setting a button which automatically invokes that command on a
+> binary rpm field, to fill a srpm field ?
+> Could you try that as well ?
+> If it works, then I think we would have a better solution.
+> 
+> I could try it, but my html/javascript skills are quite limited.
+> Just a suggestion.
+
+Javascript cannot invoke command on the user computer for obvious
+reason of security. I guess, no one want a random webpage
+to run rm -Rf ~ or similar harmful command.
+
+We could however use some exploit in firefox or epiphany for
+that...
+
+Not to mention that running rpm would only work on installed rpm, which would not
+help if the bug is "cannot install rpm".
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+