On 1/30/14, 11:01 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Mark Hatle wrote:
>
>> I've got something I put together back in about 2002 that might help you
>> visualize the structures:
>>
>> http://gate.crashing.org/~fray/rpm/rpm-xml-desc.jpg
>
> Hi, Mark
>
> Pretty geek pr0n  -- done with something to prodice a .dot
> file for Graphviz, or something else

Rational Rose.  There are other open source apps that can do these kinds of 
diagrams now..

I did this because at the time we were trying to directly manipulate the RPM 
package itself, not using the librpm or similar.

> I've needed to automate some diagramming of this sort in a TUI
> (and VCS) friendly fashion
>
> Thanks
>
> - Russ herrold
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