Re: python nosignatures/digests in rpm 4.4.1?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:15 PM, 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". :)

Add this to /etc/popt:

rpm     alias --dupes   --qf '%|SOURCERPM?{%{name}.%{arch}}:{%|ARCH?{% 
{name}}:{%{name}-%{version}}|}|\n' --pipe "sort | uniq -d" \
        --POPTdesc=$"list duplicated packages"

Invoke as
     rpm -qa --dupes
or
    rpm -qp --dupes *.rpm

> And it appears that the flag I want is simply  
> rpm._RPMVSF_NOPAYLOAD. (And it
> can be set only the once.)

Add --stats to see what time various operations take. If NOPAYLOAD is  
affecting,
then you have *lots* of packages with old header+payload signatures.

hth

73 de Jeff