On Friday, 08 June 2007, at 19:26:29 (-0400),
Jeff Johnson wrote:

> But fam/imon/poll are perhaps overkill if all you want is to display
> some readonly metadata in a file system like hierarchical
> format. The automagic export in current rpm installs/erases (and
> exports) exactly when the package is registered in an rpmdb.

So an install/erase automatically kicks off an export?

> Write operations for a file system presentation to trigger, say, an  
> install/upgrade
> would be slightly trickier. Likely the easiest implementation would be
>      echo "/path/to/my/pkg*.rpm" > /rpm/install
> as a means to install/upgrade a package, including all necessary  
> dependencies of course.

Wasn't even going there. :-)

Michael

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