Re: Has perl-RPM been superceded by something else?

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Chris Garrigues wrote:

> I just upgraded my mandrake box from rpm-4.0.4-28mdk to rpm-4.2-22.1.92mdk and 
> find that the perl-RPM rpm stopped working.  I tried recompiling it and it failed.
> I assume it's not just me that can't make it work because 9.2 doesn't include 
> a compiled perl-RPM even though 9.1 did.
> 
> I'm willing to rewrite my code for a different API if that's what it takes.

Try perl-RPM2 by Chip.


Gerald

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Name        : perl-RPM2                    Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.62                              Vendor: (none)
Release     : 0.9x                          Build Date: Thu 17 Apr 2003 
10:45:06 AM CEST
Install Date: Thu 11 Dec 2003 08:44:01 PM CET      Build Host: 
soliton.home
Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM: 
perl-RPM2-0.62-0.9x.src.rpm
Size        : 177009                           License: GPL or Artistic
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Chip Turner <[email protected]>
URL         : http://search.cpan.org/dist/RPM2/
Summary     : A package for querying RPM package files and databases.
Description :
The RPM2 module provides an object-oriented interface to
querying both the installed RPM database as well as files
on the filesystem.