RPM - "installf" command

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:23 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 11:15 -0500, James R Maxwell wrote:
> > We are transitioning to Linux from Sun Solaris. We do quite a bit of
> > post processing in our Sun Solaris packages which uses installf to
> > update the contents DB. Is there a similar command or mechanism in
> > RPM?
> > 
> 
> Not that i've ever used. Updating the rpmdb outside of the transaction
> itself is not frequently done nor encouraged.
> 

this does bring up something we've been kicking around in yum. Allowing
external pkg/file verification.

yum has a verify module to do the equiv of rpm -Va and we've added in a
plugin hook to allow a plugin to modify the filelist + checksums that
we'd then go on to check against the system files.

its the verify_package plugin hook in latest yum (3.2.28)

-sv