Determining Num of packages in db

[David Farning <dfarning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a way to determine the total number of packages in the rpmdb?
I've been trying variations on the following with no luck.

num =rpmdbCountPackages(db, NULL); 

It's easy to-- 

mi = rpmdbInitIterator(db, RPMDBI_PACKAGES, NULL, 0);
if (mi) {
  while ((h = rpmdbNextIterator(mi)) != NULL)
	num++;
  }

--but it seems pretty inefficient.

Thanks, 
David Farning


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