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Bug 1876606 - dnf python API does not provide an rpm header of a package (as yum API does)
Summary: dnf python API does not provide an rpm header of a package (as yum API does)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dnf
Version: 8.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: Lukáš Hrázký
QA Contact: Radek Bíba
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-07 17:24 UTC by Michal Bocek
Modified: 2021-05-18 15:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dnf-4.4.2-9.el8
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Last Closed: 2021-05-18 15:00:36 UTC
Type: Bug
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Embargoed:
pm-rhel: mirror+


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Description Michal Bocek 2020-09-07 17:24:07 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently it seems to me there's no way to get the package rpm header through the dnf API. To provide feature parity of both yum and dnf, please add the hdr property to the Package class (https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api_package.html#dnf.package.Package). In yum, it is available in the RPMInstalledPackage class.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0:4.2.17-6.el8.noarch
rpm-0:4.14.2-37.el8.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
RHEL 7.8:
```
import yum
yum_base = yum.YumBase()
hdr = yum_base.rpmdb.returnPackages()[0].hdr
pkg_sig = hdr.sprintf('%|DSAHEADER?{%{DSAHEADER:pgpsig}}:{%|RSAHEADER?{%{RSAHEADER:pgpsig}}:{(none)}|}|')
print(pkg_sig)
```
Output: "RSA/SHA256, Wed Feb 27 12:12:40 2019, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51"

RHEL 8.2
```
import dnf
dnf_base = dnf.Base()
dnf_base.fill_sack(load_system_repo=True, load_available_repos=False)
dnf_base.sack.query().installed()[0].hdr
```
Output: a traceback "AttributeError: 'Package' object has no attribute 'hdr'"

Actual results:
I'm unable to get the rpm header of a package through the dnf python module.

Expected results:
I have a way to get the rpm header of a package through the dnf python API.

Additional notes:
The Convert2RHEL tool needs to be able to read the rpm header to get the signature of an installed package on CentOS 8.

Comment 2 Lukáš Hrázký 2020-11-12 17:15:31 UTC
PR: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1686

Comment 5 Michal Bocek 2021-02-16 09:54:46 UTC
I would have appreciated to have the package object have the hdr attribute available in both the yum and dnf API, but since the patch is already in place, I can definitely workaround that "inconsistency" and get the header through get_header() in the case of dnf API.

Comment 6 Lukáš Hrázký 2021-02-16 12:32:30 UTC
Well, that wasn't part of the original report. I didn't know we're supposed to try to maintain compatibility with the original yum API and don't see much point in that, the APIs must be different enough anyway? Are you calling both APIs from the same code base?

Comment 7 Michal Bocek 2021-02-16 15:10:59 UTC
Lukas, don't worry. I should have made myself clearer in the description. The fact that the header has been made available through the dnf API is an improvement no matter how to get it.
We indeed call both APIs from one code base (https://github.com/oamg/convert2rhel/blob/v0.17/convert2rhel/pkghandler.py#L207) but it's not a big of a deal for us to take care of the yum vs. dnf API difference.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:00:36 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (dnf bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1657


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