On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:58 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| There's also | RPMTAG_PACKAGEDIGEST = 1215, /* s */ | RPMTAG_PACKAGESTAT = 1216, /* x */ | which are the *.rpm file digest, and the stat(2) of the package| file path, which are also saved persistently in the rpmdb when populated| at the time the package is registered. What are these useful for?
These tags are currently used for rpm-metadata markup. But the tags can be used to track the location/content/timestamps of the original package, which is useful for managing software.Note the caveat " ... when populated ...". RPMTAG_PACKAGEDIGEST in particular
is expensive to calculate and add to headers, and is largely unneeded because there are already header-only and header+payload digests that are carried within packages. 73 de Jeff
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