Re: RPM C API (and other fun acronyms)

["R. Tyler Ballance" <tyler bleepsoft com>]

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> There's doxygen doco for rpm's C API on your RHEL4 system:
> 	file:///usr/share/doc/rpm-devel-X.Y.Z/apidocs/*
>
> There's the "RedHat RPM Guilde" someplace @redhat.com.
>
> Hint: You want something like (this snippet retrieves the package  
> that provides "bash"):
>
>     rpmts ts = rpmtsCreate();
>     rpmdbMatchIterator mi = rpmtsInitIterator(ts,  
> RPMTAG_PROVIDENAME, "bash", 0);
>     Header h;
>
>     while((h = rpmdbNextIterator(mi)) != NULL) {
> 	... do whatever with the bash header ...
>     }
>     mi = rpmdbFreeIterator(mi);
>     ts = rpmtsFree(ts);


Thanks! Unfortunately, the documentaiton seems to make reference (the  
max-rpm guide as well[1]) to headerDump() which would be perfect, but  
this doesn't seem to exist any longer in the RPM API. Are there any  
other good, quick meaningful ways to dump a header's information or  
print out the information from the rpm transaction?

Cheers,

- -R. Tyler Ballance

[1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-rpmlib-example-code.html


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