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Re: rpm -bt assertion abort

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Fri 21 Dec 2007 - 23:22:11 CET
Message-ID: <20071221222211.GA19399@engelschall.com>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> [...]
> So should I wire -v to "rpmIsverbose()" of just add to macros.in.

Ah, good idea: yes, that would make sense: "rpm -v -bt" to let "vcheck
-v" be run. Please go for it...

> What I want to see is a common approach, whatever works for OpenPkg, works
> for rpm-5.0 too.

Currently I'm still having to get the stuff working again (see my other
mail) as the "rpm -bt" now silently no longer does anything at all ;-)

> Longer term, I shall likely re-implement vcheck in C under rpmio to
> avoid the buttload of missing perl dependencies. The functionality
> is too useful to rpm to mess around with perl Artistic anarchy imho.
> I can/will leave behind a macro for those who insist on the gud old
> stuff external to rpm (and rpmio) ...
>
> Make sense?

Yes, makes sense.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Fri Dec 21 23:30:39 2007
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