Re: python nosignatures/digests in rpm 4.4.1?

[seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu>]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 22:15 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > out of curiosity why do you want a list of duplicates? I've found I
> > typically want a list old pkgs - though adding 'list duplicates' would
> > be extremely trivial for repomanage and if you'd like to do that, do so
> > and send me a patch. I'll merge it.
> 
> Um, now that I think about it, a list of duplicates and a list of old
> packages are probably actually exactly synonymous, 'cause I actually mean
> "old packages which duplicate current packages". :)
> 
> And it appears that the flag I want is simply rpm._RPMVSF_NOPAYLOAD. (And it
> can be set only the once.)
> 
> For some reason my script is a few percent faster than repomanage, but
> probably that can be attributed to "mine is uglier and less robust code". :)
> 

what ver of repomanage are you using (from what ver of yum-utils)? b/c
earlier ones had a couple of bugs that made it slower for silly reasons.

-sv