[Yum-devel] [patch] make RpmSack.what* return a list of POs insted of pkgtups

[Florian Festi]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 12:24 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
>> RpmSack.whatProvides and .whatRequires build package objects inside but only 
>> return the pkg tuples. This is really annoying as most places need to 
>> reconstruct these objects later.
> 
> While (at times annoyingly :-) inconsistent, changing this breaks API
> compatibility and thus I'd really rather not do it, at least not at this
> time.
> 
> We could go the (still ugly) route of adding a aspo flag and only do it
> when that's passed; that would allow new callers to get the benefit
> while not breaking older callers.  And if we wanted to keep things
> consistent, we could implement the same flag on the other sacks, just
> with the different default

Could look like the attached patch...
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