Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] [Question] How to understand the immutable header regions introduced from RPM 4.0 (Discussion #2719)

2024-03-07 Thread Michael Schroeder
The offset in the region trailer in the Data section is supposed to be negative for some reason. I.e. the description of the offset in the second table is not correct. Btw, does deleting of tags via dribbles really work? I didn't think it was possible... -- Reply to this email directly or vi

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] [Question] How to understand the immutable header regions introduced from RPM 4.0 (Discussion #2719)

2024-03-07 Thread Panu Matilainen
This is now covered in a bit more detail here: https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/format_header.html#immutable-regions -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/discussions/2719#discussioncomment-8705981 You are receivi

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] [Question] How to understand the immutable header regions introduced from RPM 4.0 (Discussion #2719)

2023-10-13 Thread Panu Matilainen
Yeah I was just looking at the document a few days ago and thinking this is so confusing we'd probably be better off without it :sweat_smile: The details are more complicated than this, but in broad stokes, the header immutable region (there's only one) is mostly about header-only hashes and s