[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/4] rpm: Add some documentation to librpm.mli.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Oct 13 12:54:29 UTC 2015


---
 src/librpm.mli | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/librpm.mli b/src/librpm.mli
index da73911..5229be6 100644
--- a/src/librpm.mli
+++ b/src/librpm.mli
@@ -16,17 +16,28 @@
  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
  *)
 
+(** Wrappers around [librpm] functions. *)
+
 val rpm_is_available : unit -> bool
+(** Returns [true] iff librpm is supported.  If this returns [false],
+    then all other functions will abort. *)
 
 val rpm_version : unit -> string
+(** The linked version of librpm. *)
+
 val rpm_vercmp : string -> string -> int
+(** Compare two RPM version strings using RPM version compare rules. *)
 
 type t
+(** The librpm handle. *)
 
 exception Multiple_matches of int
 
 val rpm_open : ?debug:int -> t
+(** Open the librpm (transaction set) handle. *)
 val rpm_close : t -> unit
+(** Explicitly close the handle.  The handle can also be closed by
+    the garbage collector if it becomes unreachable. *)
 
 type rpm_t = {
   name : string;
@@ -44,6 +55,16 @@ type rpmfile_t = {
   | FileConfig
 
 val rpm_installed : t -> string -> rpm_t array
+(** Return the list of packages matching the name
+    (similar to [rpm -q name]). *)
+
 val rpm_pkg_requires : t -> string -> string array
+(** Return the requires of a package (similar to [rpm -qR]). *)
+
 val rpm_pkg_whatprovides : t -> string -> string array
+(** Return what package(s) provide a particular requirement
+    (similar to [rpm -q --whatprovides]). *)
+
 val rpm_pkg_filelist : t -> string -> rpmfile_t array
+(** Return the list of files contained in a package, and attributes of
+    those files (similar to [rpm -ql]). *)
-- 
2.5.0




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