Re: Rpm 4.2 API (was: Re: New beginnings)

Hunter Matthews <[email protected]> 29 Jan 2003 16:55:44 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:42, Jos Vos wrote:
> > Has the labelCompare() function changed? 
> 
> At first sight: no.
> 
> > Do you see if we use any other rpm functions (they should all be in the
> > 1.4.2 channel.py)
> 
> Only rpm.headerLoad, I think.  Seems to be there too (not sure about
> the semantics yet).

We'll have to dig in and see what, if anything, changed in the data
formats inside the header.

We know about the "am I a source rpm" field, are there others?
   (That was rhetorical - I'm not expect Jos to do all this work)

But it doesn't look as bad as I thought. We might get by with some
simple changes to rpm_wrapper's header function.

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