On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:23 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 11:15 -0500, James R Maxwell wrote: > > We are transitioning to Linux from Sun Solaris. We do quite a bit of > > post processing in our Sun Solaris packages which uses installf to > > update the contents DB. Is there a similar command or mechanism in > > RPM? > > > > Not that i've ever used. Updating the rpmdb outside of the transaction > itself is not frequently done nor encouraged. > this does bring up something we've been kicking around in yum. Allowing external pkg/file verification. yum has a verify module to do the equiv of rpm -Va and we've added in a plugin hook to allow a plugin to modify the filelist + checksums that we'd then go on to check against the system files. its the verify_package plugin hook in latest yum (3.2.28) -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
