Description of problem: In particular, yum info shows whether the package is installed or not. zif does not. I have tried setting zif.conf to allow yumdb read to true and it doesn't change the output
It's not related to the yumdb. We just need to modify the CLI tool to tell if the package is installed or not. It's a trivial bug, should be easy to fix. I'll take a look at that today. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Err, actually, I get [elad@elephant tools]$ zif info zif Enabling offline mode as user unprivileged. Completed [==================================================] <100%> Name : zif Version : 0.2.6-0.14.20111010git.fc16 Arch : x86_64 Size : 799509 bytes Repo : installed Summary : Simple wrapper for rpm and the Fedora package metadata URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that provides read-write access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit. Zif is not designed as a replacement to yum, nor to be used by end users. Name : zif Version : 0.2.5-1.fc16 Arch : i686 Size : 246961 bytes Repo : updates-testing Summary : Simple wrapper for rpm and the Fedora package metadata URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that provides read-write access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit. Zif is not designed as a replacement to yum, nor to be used by end users. In which you can clearly see Repo: installed. I can add another line which says Installed: yes or Installed: no, but I don't think we need that. for comparison, here is the yum output: [elad@elephant tools]$ yum info zif Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit fedora/metalink | 20 kB 00:00 fedora | 4.2 kB 00:00 fedora/primary_db | 14 MB 01:22 fedora/group | 1.9 MB 00:10 flash | 2.9 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free-rawhide | 3.3 kB 00:00 rpmfusion-free-rawhide/primary_db | 331 kB 00:02 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide | 3.3 kB 00:02 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide/primary_db | 109 kB 00:05 updates-testing/metalink | 19 kB 00:00 updates-testing | 4.7 kB 00:00 updates-testing/primary_db | 5.2 MB 00:33 updates-testing/group | 1.9 MB 00:20 Installed Packages Name : zif Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.2.6 Release : 0.14.20111010git.fc16 Size : 781 k Repo : installed Summary : Simple wrapper for rpm and the Fedora package metadata URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that provides read-write : access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit. : : Zif is not designed as a replacement to yum, nor to be used by end : users. Available Packages Name : zif Arch : i686 Version : 0.2.5 Release : 1.fc16 Size : 241 k Repo : updates-testing Summary : Simple wrapper for rpm and the Fedora package metadata URL : http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/zif/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Zif is a simple yum-compatible library that provides read-write : access to the rpm database and the Fedora metadata for PackageKit. : : Zif is not designed as a replacement to yum, nor to be used by end : users. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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