Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] IDENTITY as header tag extension discussion (#426)

2018-04-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
All of the I18N string tags (SUMMARY/DESCRIPTION/CHANGELOG*) should not be included in IDENTITY because the value returned can depend on an envvar, and/or external files, and/or macros embedded in text. Then there are issues with the stat(2) links, where st_mtime/st_rdev/st_inode tags should

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Rust bindings for rpmlib (#429)

2018-04-11 Thread Tony Arcieri
Hello, I've written a nascent Rust binding for rpmlib: https://crates.io/crates/rpmlib First of all, I would love any feedback. This is my first deep dive into the internals of RPM, and while I found ample documentation about certain things, a lot of what I was doing was guesswork. I'm also