[Rpm-maint] [PATCH 1/2] Add RPMTAG_AUTOINSTALLED

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/12/2018 11:04 PM, vseleznv at altlinux.org wrote:
> From: "Vladimir D. Seleznev" <vseleznv at altlinux.org>
> 
> This tag is needed to track automatically installed packages with rpmdb.
> Zero value means that a package was installed manually, other values
> mean that the package was installed automatically as some else package
> dependency.

Just noting that we should consider those other values with some care 
because it's not just a binary yes/no value, at least buildrequires and 
different levels and types of weak dependencies seem worth tracking 
separately. Maybe an enum defining the legal values.

Other future ponderings:

We'll should probably add some sort of API for this later on. IIRC C/C++ 
callers can set it in the header directly from the callback (IIRC), but 
that wont work with the python bindings and wouldn't hurt to have an 
explicit API for C/C++ too.

Optimally there would also be a way to change the install-time recorded 
value from cli, since the reason might change. And it might be something 
that wants to be inherited on package upgrades without explicitly 
setting (a package might be installed as a dependency but then updated 
manually with rpm, etc)

	- Panu -