Description of problem: In the RPM Python API, the function dbMatch does not work as expected for tag RPMTAG_BASENAMES. Instead of giving an iterator to header objects that contain the given base file, it returns an iterator to an empty list. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RPM version 4.4.2 Python 2.4.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Here's the python code: import rpm ts = rpm.TransactionSet() mi = ts.dbMatch(rpm.RPMTAG_BASENAMES,'whateverthebasenameshouldbe')#e.g. 'README' for h in mi: print h[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME] Actual results: Prints nothing. The iterator returned by ts.dbMatch always points to an empty list, even if there are be packages with files with this basename Expected results: Should print out all package names that provide a file with the given base name Additional info: Going the other way (from header to basenames of files) works fine, eg: print h[rpm.RPMTAG_BASENAMES] will print a list of all the base names of the files the package provides
My mistake. Apparently, querying using the RPMTAG_BASENAMES requires using the full file path, not the basename. This is why I always got no results. While inconsistent with the information given using header[RPMTAG_BASENAMES], there's probably no point in changing it - the patch would hurt more than help - though the quirk should be documented here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch16s03.html
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