[Rpm-ecosystem] Using librpm directly to parse RPM databases

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:18:24PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Note that I'm quite sure I don't fully understand the use-case with
> libguestfs. If you can link to librpm and isolate it to its own
> process, couldn't you just exec the actual rpm binary for queries?
> The command line query interface is essentially compatible till the
> beginning of times.

No, we don't trust the guest and don't want to run programs from the
guest.

Rich.

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