def strip_version_info(cls, pkg_info):
'''
This strips '-\d' version information from each package_name in
the pkg_info dictionary.
pkg_info -- a dictionary of ["installed"], ["uninstalled"],
["broken_installed"], ["broken_uninstalled"]. Each item
is a tuple of package_name / date.
'''
output = {"installed":[], "uninstalled":[],
"broken_installed":[], "broken_uninstalled":[]}
package_list_names = output.keys()
# look at package_list_name for duplicates in other listTypes
for package_list_name in package_list_names:
# do other package lists have this basename?
for full_package_name, action_time in pkg_info[package_list_name]:
base_package_name = rpartition(full_package_name, '-')[0]
other_types = output.keys()
other_types.remove(package_list_name)
for compare_list in other_types:
more_recent = cls.check_if_more_recent(base_package_name,
action_time,
pkg_info[compare_list])
if more_recent == True:
break
if not more_recent:
output[package_list_name].append([base_package_name,
action_time])
return output
def check_if_more_recent(cls, base_package_name, action_time,
comparison_list):
"""If a package has both an INSTALL action and an UNINSTALL action
shown next to it, we need to determine which is the more recent and
then ignore the other one.
"""
remove = False
for full_package_name_2, action_time_2 in comparison_list:
base_package_name_2 = rpartition(full_package_name_2, '-')[0]
if base_package_name == base_package_name_2:
if action_time_2 > action_time:
remove = True
return remove