[Yum-devel] rpm --requires and primary.xml <requires>

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> And you'd have to restart yum (or manage to unload and reload the rpm module 
> entirely) after such update, otherwise yum would still be using the older 
> librpm.

> Putting the rpmlib() provides into regular provides of the rpm package would 
> be wrong as they're runtime dependencies, it'd need a new dependency flag or 
> such that says so. Which btw would be useful occasionally, I remember a 
> couple of cases where something like this would've been needed.

> Well, that's what rpm will tell the user eventually anyway, after a 
> potentially huge download. I don't see how that's better for the user than 
> having yum say so before wasting time on downloading stuff that can't be 
> installed.
>

So all I need is:
1. how to get the rpm capabilities from the running rpm instance
2. and then store the rpmlib requires in the repodata - which is just a 
nice bump in size for comparatively little functionality/benefit. :(

-sv