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? > 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. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can bend over for Blue Cross, and you can bend over for Kaiser. Blue Cross is nice because they give you two ways to bend over." -- anonymous co-worker ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
