Re: show-leaves plugin
Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like yum to tell me if after a transaction there are any new leaf packages
> installed. New packages installed in a transaction are the obvious ones (and
> should maybe not be displayed at all but IMO that's a minor concern that can
> be taken care of if need be, perhaps with a config option), but the more
> interesting ones are new leaves after an update or update+install transaction.
> remove-with-leaves is similar but AFAIK it handles only erase transactions.
>
> So, I came up with the attached plugin. I don't feel too good about clearing
> cached rpmdb data in posttrans_hook but it seems necessary and the alternative
> I came up with (grabbing rpmdb data in close_hook instead of posttrans_hook
> and accessing rpmdb there through conduit._base.rpmdb) felt even worse. Is
> there a better way?
>
> Comments and improvements welcome. I'd like to see this eventually included
> in yum-utils.
in yum following 3.2.22 an:
was added
here
self.rpmdb.dropCachedData() # drop out the rpm cache so we don't step on bad hdr indexes
self.plugins.run('posttrans')
in runTransaction() in YumBase.
so I think what you want is already happening.
-sv
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