RPMTAG_FILENAMES tag still needed

[Apparao Urla (aurla)]

Hi,

I am implementing one API to get the list of files using RPMTAG_FILENAMES.
I found that  RPMTAG_FILENAMES is removed in 5.1.9.

Please correct me if I am wrong,
there is no other option to to get the list of files in a rpm rather than 
parsing the directories(RPMTAG_DIRNAMES) ,
dir indexes(DIRINDEXES) and basenames(BASENAMES) tags.

Is there any other option (TAG) to get the list of files?.


Thanks and Regards,
Apparao.
Cisco systems India Pvt Ltd,
Bangalore.

Re: RPMTAG_FILENAMES tag still needed

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:

 On 1/30/14, 7:41 AM, Apparao Urla (aurla) wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am implementing one API to get the list of files using RPMTAG_FILENAMES.
 
 I found that  RPMTAG_FILENAMES is removed in 5.1.9.
 
 Please correct me if I am wrong,
 
 there is no other option to to get the list of files in a rpm rather than
 parsing the directories(RPMTAG_DIRNAMES) ,
 
 dir indexes(DIRINDEXES) and basenames(BASENAMES) tags.
 
 That is the correct way to do it.  The FILENAMES has been deprecated for 
 years, and was finally removed.
 

Technically RPMTAG_FILENAMES hasn't been a tag, but rather a header tag 
extension
all this century.

The only way to complete the transition fromn tag to extension is to eliminate 
RPMTAG_FILENAMES,
which behaves in at least 3 different ways in various versions of rpm.

Accessing RPMTAG_{DIRNAMES,BASENAMES,INDICES} is one way to
attempt portability: there are other approaches coding access in
different ways that can be done as well.

 I've got something I put together back in about 2002 that might help you 
 visualize the structures:
 
 http://gate.crashing.org/~fray/rpm/rpm-xml-desc.jpg
 

Meanwhile the current headerGet() can access both tags and extensions 
transparently.

The replacement extension (iirc, all this was done years ago) is 
RPMTAG_FILELISTS.

73 de Jeff

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Re: RPMTAG_FILENAMES tag still needed

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Mark Hatle wrote:

 I've got something I put together back in about 2002 that might help you
 visualize the structures:
 
 http://gate.crashing.org/~fray/rpm/rpm-xml-desc.jpg

Hi, Mark

Pretty geek pr0n  -- done with something to prodice a .dot 
file for Graphviz, or something else

I've needed to automate some diagramming of this sort in a TUI 
(and VCS) friendly fashion

Thanks

- Russ herrold
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