On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 23:05 -0600, David Farning wrote:
> 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++;
> }
in the python modules there is an count() method to an mi instance but
from my tests it doesn't appear to return anything useful - but I
thought it was supposed to return the number of match iterators counted.
You might want to check out that code in the python modules.
-sv
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