Re: 4.5 features: Automagically export package metadata

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Michael Jennings wrote:

On Friday, 08 June 2007, at 19:26:29 (-0400),
Jeff Johnson wrote:

But fam/imon/poll are perhaps overkill if all you want is to display
some readonly metadata in a file system like hierarchical
format. The automagic export in current rpm installs/erases (and
exports) exactly when the package is registered in an rpmdb.

So an install/erase automatically kicks off an export?


Yes. You'll see the /var/cache/hrmib export if you install/upgrade  
with -vv.

The mechanism is likely to be generalized this month in the 4 ways I  
mentioned.

Write operations for a file system presentation to trigger, say, an
install/upgrade
would be slightly trickier. Likely the easiest implementation  
would be
     echo "/path/to/my/pkg*.rpm" > /rpm/install
as a means to install/upgrade a package, including all necessary
dependencies of course.

Wasn't even going there. :-)


But I *want* to go there.

73 de Jeff

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