Re: [RPM] Re: [rpm] Re: rpm & ssh Prior life: [rpm] Re: Using URLin Source/Patch?

[Thornton Prime <thornton yoyoweb com>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> OK, let's take a few of these deas point by point:
>
> 1) "API"
> 	rpmio is just such an API ...

It is, but it currently doesn't support loading other protocols, does it?

> 2) "plug-in"
> 	... dlopen is *easy*, the problem is ...

dlopen is nice, but being able to write a shell script that handled all
URIs of a specified prefix would be very cool. As long as the shell
understood and accepted the right args correctly, one could ewrite a shell
script that handled any protocol.

>
> 2a)
> 	... rpm *must* be able to run in empty chroot's, as that's the
> 	environment during an install. Read: Unlike most apps,
> 	rpm can't easily use other libraries.

That is a serious problem.

> 3) "do its work"
> 	And that's the heart of the matter. Should rpm be narrowly
> 	focussed on "package management", and, hence, not have any
> 	support for network transport? Or ...
>
> What is the proper "work" of rpm anyways?

I kinda hoped you knew the answer to that one.

thornton