search for: rpm_providers

This is v2 of the 4/4 patch from the original series. Changes: - memoize the function this time - check packages are installed using rpm_package_of_string However I didn't combine the two case together, because the code is a bit simpler with them separate. Rich.

...deletions(-) diff --git a/src/rpm.ml b/src/rpm.ml index 4d31472..d3ab7da 100644 --- a/src/rpm.ml +++ b/src/rpm.ml @@ -210,8 +210,42 @@ let rpm_package_name pkg = let rpm_get_package_database_mtime () = (lstat "/var/lib/rpm/Packages").st_mtime -(* Memo of resolved provides. *) -let rpm_providers = Hashtbl.create 13 +(* Return the best provider of a particular RPM requirement. + * + * There may be multiple, or no providers. In case there are multiple, + * choose the one with the shortest name (as yum used to). + * + * We could do better here: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders +...

Fix for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266918

Hi, this work makes supermin use the rpm library instead of invoking rpm directly. This, together with a needed refactoring of the dependency resolution, should help in make supermin faster on rpm-based systems. Surely the patches will still need polishing, especially for behaviours of newly added stuff, but at least it's a good starting point. Noting that you need rpm-devel on most of rpm