On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:05:26PM -0700, John VanSciver wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway to have query and install/update functions search multiple > RPM databases? I need to be able to have install update one database, but > search 2 databases for dependencies. > > There is an old bugzilla request #4137 that describes exactly what I need, > but I see no resolution done for the request. > Heh, bug known well. After *years* of effort, I've managed to get a 2nd rpmdb opened by rpm and searched if dependency is not found in /var/lib/rpm. This is the "Suggested resolution:" mechanism that is in the, say, rpmdb-fedora package. The generalization to a full blown PATH-like list of databases expressed conceptually as, say, RPMDBPATH=/var/lib/rpm:/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat:... with the first database opened O_RDWR, with the others O_RDONLY used to provide fifo suggestions for depsolvers seems to be a reasonable approach imho. Instead, current depsolvers are exploring multiple repositories of headers (or xml representations of headers). Similar conceptually, but lacking the speed of bsearch/hash on info retrieve. A path for rpmdb's is still in my rpm goal set, I'll get there yet. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
