Hi all,
I am a newbie to rpm internals. I will be glad if someone could
help me with a problem I am facing.
There is a program I am using which looks at RPM version number
and compares it against a database to see if the RPM version has a
security bug. The program uses the following calls:
rpmReadConfigFiles
rpmtsCreate
rpmtsInitIterator
rpmdbNextIterator
readHeaderInt32
readHeaderString
rpmdbFreeIterator
rpmtsFree
headerGetEntry
rpmvercmp
If I want to analyse machine A, I want to take its /var/lib/rpm/ to a
different machine B and run the program there. Now, the directory
/var/lib/rpm/ is 118M on my machine. So it is infeasible for me to
transfer the files. Hence, I want to only export those parts of the
database that are needed for these calls. I am guessing that the relavant
dataset is small and hence more easily manageable.
Can someone point me to links? I was trying to look in the rpm source
distribution for documentation of these functions. I could not find a
documentation directory. Can someone point me to a good documentation
resource? I am trying to see if I can avoid reading the source. :-)
regards,
Sudhakar.
Sudhakar Govindavajhala Department of Computer Science
Graduate Student, Princeton University
Ph : (lab) +1 609 258 1763 (office) +1 609 258 1798
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar
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