[Yum-devel] proof of concept patch - additional data on installed packages

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 18:35:20 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:11 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Something we talked about before. This is a simple fs-as-a-db backended
> additional database. It fits in around the rpmsack and the
> YumInstalledPackage objects to let you have fairly seamless access to
> this information from any given installed package object

So, to kind of repeat what I've said before and what we talked about via
jabber the other day...

I tend to think that adding things like this into yum is going to lead
to an increasingly fragile path of layers of everything keeping its own
data -- we have the rpmdb, then the new "yumdb" and the PackageKit
persistent info, and then there will be a presentation-layer
information.  While more difficult, I really think that we want to work
with rpm to get the information we care about there

Jeremy




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