Re: The state of LSB Packaging?

[Jeff Johnson]

On May 20, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Denis Washington wrote:

> 
> Simple in that
> 
> 1. it only consists of a very small set of C functions (essentially 
> register+unregister, plus a few to assemble the package metadata) which don't 
> require any other library to be used
> 

Well, here's the existing (and SIMPLE) register/unregister API in RPM
stripped to a bare-bones invocation:

        rpmdb db = ...;         /* database handle */
        Header h = ...;         /* package metadata encapsulation */
        uint32_t hdrNum = ...;  /* package instance # in database. */

        int rc = rpmdbAdd(db, time(NULL), Header h, NULL);

        int rc = rpmdbRemove(db, time(NULL), hdrNum, NULL);

The only complexity there is in finding the API gozzintas, the API itself is 
already SIMPLE.

I only mention to underscore Yet Again that is the data and context, not the 
API,
that aren't SIMPLE. I wouldn't even discuss the register/unregister API per se,
because its the data and the context, not the methods, that isn't SIMPLE.

> 
>> But if you can devise some reasonable spewage for encapsulating "package"
>> data, I'll try to embed your API @rpm5.org.
>>   
> 
> Great to hear.
> 

Just to try to be optimistic:
        Show me some code and I'll try to use it.

73 de Jeff
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