Re: other weirdness with rpm and the python bindings

[Harri Haataja <harri haataja cs Helsinki FI>]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:10:22PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 17:27, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:06:52PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > This seems incredibly inefficient to me.
> > Yup.
> > > Can anyone explain this to me?
> > rpm was written for an installer, not a dependency solver.
> 
> Right, I'm trying to (re)write something that does dependency
> resolution. It would aid my efforts and speed up the updating/dependency
> resolving if I did not have to tear down and rebuild the transaction set
> everytime, if, instead, I could just update the pkg state in the
> transaction set.

> ie:
>  - if I find something that needs to be installed instead of being
> available. I ts.add(hdr, data,'r') then I ts.add(hdr, data, 'i')

> you get the idea.

I'm not quite sure, but have you looked at apt[0]?
It seems to me that there's the same goal but a different approach.


[0] http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/

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