On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:30:32PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:22 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:15:04AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 21:02 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > > > Does yum support rpm --repackage, or something equivalent? > > > > > > The transaction doesn't currently do anything for repackaging but it is > > > something I would like to implement shortly. > > > > > > > Eeep. > > > > Better start looking at rpm-4.4 (and talking to me off-line please ;-) then. > > > > > I'm just talking about the repackage implementation that's in up2date's > callback. Or is that one changing, too. "Lightly tested" is perhaps pleasant and euphonius on tired ears. AFAIK from my rpm POV, --repackage is an abandoned and orphaned implementation that is not going to play well with other and newer features like multilib, selinux, header-only signatures, and perhaps more. Any other information to the contrary is (cover your ears ;-) FUD. But I can certainly resurrect sufficient functionality to satisfy any known "real world" goal if given enough lead time, like a couple weeks. Some of jodin's stuff is headed in the right direction, but I have not really assessed what else needs doing. The bindings need work too, as the repackage call can/will suck every header from /usr/lib/rpm/Packages into memory with a single python mathod invocation, there are certainly better API's that should be attempted. That's just for starters ... Hint: Sooner the better ... 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC
