Using --query --hdlist for distro/repo collection QA

[Jeff Johnson]

While on the subject of genhdlist and hdlist, here is functionality
@rpm5.org (and was mostly in rpm-4.4.2, but I don't know what damage
rpm.org has done to the rpmgi API code).

There is a -H,--hdlist modifier option to queries @rpm5.org that
is likely useful for QA on distro/repository level collections of
packages.

E.g.
        rpm -qaHT


The -qaHT query uses this macro to specify the path to the hdlist
concatenated headers:
        #
        # Path for rpm -qH (default is /usr/share/comps/%{_arch}/hdlist)
        %_query_hdlist_path %{_datadir}/comps/%{_arch}/hdlist


to detect dependency loops



If the above functionalitty is desired in perl/python bindings, then the
rpmgi interface needs to be wrapped up, not rocket science at all.


is the core problem) binary headers is a better approach to distro/repo
collection markup.

hth

73 de Jeff

will verify dependency closure and emit topologically sorted package names. Add -v (or use @rpm5.org where loops are always printed) if you also want Its rather easy to add a popt alias like --hdlistpath if one wants as well. Personally, I think that XML/YAML instead of concatenated (and modified, that

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