On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:15:58PM -0500, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
> Apologies if this has been discussed before, I didn't
> immediately find anything on Google, in the Red Hat
> Knowlege base or Bugzilla.
>
> I'm getting an error when using Python to pull data
> out of the RPM database. My actual program is more complex
> than this, but I've narrowed it down to the following
> simple example:
>
> When I run the following script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import rpm
> tn = rpm.tagnames
> ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
> mi = ts.dbMatch('name', 'termcap')
> h = mi.next()
> print h['name']
> print h['TRIGGERTYPE']
>
> I get the following output:
>
> termcap
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test.py", line 9, in ?
> print h['TRIGGERTYPE']
> TypeError: unsupported type in header
>
> I'm developing on an RHEL 3.0 WS system fully up to
> date with RHN, rpm 4.2.1 rel 4.4. But I have verified
> it on a second RHEL 3.0 WS system, as well as on an RH
> 9 system running rpm 4.2 rel 0.69, so I don't think it's
> a corrupted database. If, on my main RHEL system, I trap
> that TypeError and loop through all tags in all headers,
> I find that it occurs in 197 headers, and only ever on
> the TRIGGERTYPE tag.
There is no TRIGGERTYPE tag in rpm. See rpm --querytags
for the names of tags that might reasonably be queried.
>
> Any guesses what's going on? Is this a known issue?
>
Rather, an "unknown" issue ;-)
73 de Jeff
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Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ
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Chapel Hill, NC
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