On Dec 21, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> 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...
>

todo++.

>> 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 ;-)
>

Yah,. One of the problems with vendor patch integration is that
noone gets to see a "complete picture". Can't be helped afaik.

>> 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.


Cool! And you dinna even wink at "cat's pajamas" reference. There's hope
for my hideousuy obscure & complicated ideolect yet ;-)

73 de Jeff