Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (112 mails)

[Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 March 2004 19:09, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
> I looked in http://www.rpm.org/rpmapi-4.1/rpmlib_8h-source.html and it
> seems that this file is different from that found in SuSE 9.0.  I believe
> that rpm.org is not updated...

That may very well be. You might want to write to their webmaster to get a 
statement on that - and if and when they plan to update it.

> Reading RPM sources is a good idea but i dont know if the same API will be
> the same on all distros. Has LSB defined any stable API about RPMLIB ???

LSB doesn't know anything about the RPM lib since (AFAIK) it doesn't specify 
anything about a package manager. Otherwise they would have had to make a 
decision between Debian's APT, RPM (used by Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake) and 
others. This is beyond the scope of that standard.


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