Okay, thanx for the quick response! A quick check showed that rmadison is called in the python script VMBuilder/plugins/ubuntu/distro.py, where it is used to get the version of the xen kernel. (Hehe, just drop the xen support, karmic not being a nice Xen citizen anyway;-)
I've dug into the rmadison source and it's more or less a lot of documentation and option parsing. It all boils down to a simple: wget -q -O - 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi?package=linux-image-FLAVOR&text=on' The only drawback I can see using this is a dependency on (priority standard) package wget and the missing abstraction level. But I doubt the URL or the result format will ever change concerning the widespread deployment of current versions of rmadison. Do you think it would be sensible to replace the call to rmadison with a pythonized version of above wget call? -- dependency devscripts is too heavy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
