Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add an API for libsolv, libdnf, et al to use to check if rpmdb has changed and trivially get path to rpmdb (#388)

2018-02-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
Presumably the desired rpm API is some Boolean valued function that returns the value "changed" with minimal hassle. What isn't clear is what changed means: time stamp since ... ? package count has changed since ... ? digest on files composing an rpmdb? There is certainly existing prior art in

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add an API for libsolv, libdnf, et al to use to check if rpmdb has changed and trivially get path to rpmdb (#388)

2018-02-02 Thread Jeff Johnson
Presumably the desired rpm API is some Boolean valued function that returns the value "changed" with minimal hassle. What isn't clear is what changed means: time stamp since ... ? package count has changed since ... ? digest on files composing an rpmdb? There is certainly existing prior art in