On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 18:20 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 06:06 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 11:18 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> RPMCALLBACK_TRANS_START is only issued once. That "bytes" happens
> >> to be a magic value of 6 is just an artifact of truly ancient rpm
> >> versions from last century issuing RPMCALLBACK_TRANS_START more than once.
> >> ---
> >>   yum/rpmtrans.py |    9 ++++-----
> >>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/yum/rpmtrans.py b/yum/rpmtrans.py
> >> index 06b484a..30c9dd3 100644
> >> --- a/yum/rpmtrans.py
> >> +++ b/yum/rpmtrans.py
> >> @@ -402,11 +402,10 @@ class RPMTransaction:
> >>
> >>
> >>       def _transStart(self, bytes, total, h):
> >> -        if bytes == 6:
> >> -            self.total_actions = total
> >> -            if self.test: return
> >> -            self.trans_running = True
> >> -            self.ts_all() # write out what transaction will do
> >> +        self.total_actions = total
> >> +        if self.test: return
> >> +        self.trans_running = True
> >> +        self.ts_all() # write out what transaction will do
> >>
> >>       def _transProgress(self, bytes, total, h):
> >>           pass
> >
> >
> > Obviously not THAT ancient, it was added around about rhel 5.0/5.1 era.
> >
> > What version of rpm are we talking about here?
> 
>  From what I searched rpm git archive, the multiple calls to 
> RPMCALLBACK_TRANS_START were eliminated in late nineties, so that'd be 
> rpm 3.x or thereabouts. Certainly rpm 4.4.x only ever calls it once. I 
> know the test appeared in yum in 2007 with the introduction of 
> rpmtrans.py, but I just wonder where the heck did it come from :)

I have a memory of running into it in rhel4.

-sv


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