[LIH] modifying rpm packages was [ Id-utils ]

[Binand Raj S.]

>>>>> "sreangsu" == sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    sreangsu> yeah for the databases you can always do that, with some
    sreangsu> work. But I am not sure whether the rpm themselves are
    sreangsu> dbm files, Binand was talking about changing the rpms
    sreangsu> rather than the database.

RPMs are cpio archives, with extra header information that the rpm
program understands. I was talking about a program that uses the
rpmlib package (it has got C, perl and python interfaces, the last
time I checked) to adjust things like dependencies, provides, triggers
and so on, maybe *both* in the rpm file and the database. This would
beat the purpose of the rpm software, but power users do find software
like rpm occassionally hindering their work. ;-)

Binand

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