Re: Re[2]: (no subject)

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:23 +0300, Zig wrote:
> Hello Paul,
> 
> Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 4:09:53 PM, you wrote:
> >> as yannick said: There are almost no specs available. Most the work
> >> we have done was by reading the code from rpm and trying to reimplement
> >> it in java. There are still many things where jrpm will not have the
> >> same results as a call to rpm.
> >> There was some work to read also raw headers (from headerUnload) and
> >> from rpmdb by Paul Nasrat.
> PN> I have some simple code using db4-java to read from an rpmdb, I've not
> PN> had a chance to do much more due to other work but I can post an example
> PN> later today.
> 
> Still waiting for your code :)

I think I may have just sent to Michael.

> If I'm not mistaken rpm uses Berkley DB. Is that possible to
> read it by using Berkley DB Java Edition? (http://www.sleepycat.com/products/je.shtml)

No the ondisk format is incompatible between je and native db4.  However
the api has changed substantially to be more java like since I first
wrote the code, so I need to rework my stuff to fit in with that.

> If so, than jRPM could be well integrated with native rpm system.

db4 jni works fine.

Paul




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