On 06/26/2010 07:59 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to search inside various RPMs using perl for information > such as name, version, vendor, etc, and wondered what the best > approach would be. I found perl-RPM from RJRAY at CPAN, but it's > dated, and doesn't compile against a distro with rpm-4.8. > > I searched freshmeat for existing code to manipulate RPM information > and wasn't very successful. > > What is the best approach to do this? > > Thanks, > Alex > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > I just tried it (perl-rpm-1.51) on a SuSE 10. system with rpm 4.4. No problemo. it doesn't install on my 11.2 with rpm 4.7.1 with the following error: perl Makefile.PL Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lrpmdb Local build detected. Generating Perl-RPM.spec... Generating rpmrc... Generating rpmmacros... Writing Makefile for RPM make cc -c -I. -I/usr/include/rpm -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -Wall -pipe -DVERSION=\"1.51\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.51\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE" -DRPM_VERSION=0x040701 RPM/Database.c -o RPM/Database.o RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘rpmdb_TIEHASH’: RPM/Database.xs:46: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘rpmError’ RPM/Database.xs:46: error: ‘RPMERR_BADARG’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs:46: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once RPM/Database.xs:46: error: for each function it appears in.) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_STORE’: RPM/Database.xs:169: error: ‘RPMERR_NOCREATEDB’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_DELETE’: RPM/Database.xs:182: error: ‘RPMERR_NOCREATEDB’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_CLEAR’: RPM/Database.xs:194: error: ‘RPMERR_NOCREATEDB’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_init’: RPM/Database.xs:264: error: ‘RPMERR_BADARG’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_rebuild’: RPM/Database.xs:284: error: ‘RPMERR_BADARG’ undeclared (first use in this function) RPM/Database.xs: In function ‘XS_RPM__Database_find_by_file’: RPM/Database.xs:320: error: ‘RPMERR_BADARG’ undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [RPM/Database.o] Error 1 Guess I'll have to open a bug at: rjray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx like the readme says Bruce -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
