[Fedora-packaging] Scripts around rpm (was: Re: Draft: Init Scripts)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:02 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III schrieb:
> >>>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
> > MM> And further, I don't want to have to look for .rpmsave/.rpmnew
> > MM> files outside of /etc.
> > 
> > Why would you look for them at all?  That's what tools are for.
> > http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpmchanges
> 
> I (and probably many others) have similar scripts. I'm wondering if we
> should trow them together, put the best one into a package (¹) and ship
> them in Fedora, so people don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over
> again.
> 

why not put the rpmchanges mechanism in a post-transaction plugin in
yum. Then it can go through and create a little report for you after any
transaction.

-sv