Re: [devel] [PATCH] Verbose QueryTags prints whether tag is an extension

["Vladimir D. Seleznev" <vseleznv@altlinux.org>]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:04:37PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 06:02:26AM +0300, Vladimir D. Seleznev wrote:
> > Verbose QueryTags prints four field: tagname, tagvalue, tagtype and whether
> > it is an extension. To make it possible QueryTags uses new function
> > rpmTagIsExtension() that returns 0 if tag is real, 1 if tag is an extension
> > or -1 if tag is not found.
> > 
> > * lib/query.c(rpmDisplayQueryTags): Print whether tag is an extension.
> > * lib/rpmtag.h(rpmTagIsExtension): New definition.
> > * lib/tagname.c(rpmTagIsExtension): New function.
> > ---
> >  lib/query.c   |  5 +++++
> >  lib/rpmtag.h  |  7 +++++++
> >  lib/tagname.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/query.c b/lib/query.c
> > index 60d3a0269..f27b15a7c 100644
> > --- a/lib/query.c
> > +++ b/lib/query.c
> > @@ -253,9 +253,14 @@ void rpmDisplayQueryTags(FILE * fp)
> >  	if (rpmIsVerbose()) {
> >  	    rpmTagVal tag = rpmTagGetValue(sname);
> >  	    rpmTagType type = rpmTagGetTagType(tag);
> > +	    int ext = rpmTagIsExtension(tag);
> >  	    fprintf(fp, "%-20s %6d", sname, tag);
> >  	    if (type > RPM_NULL_TYPE && type <= RPM_MAX_TYPE)
> >  		fprintf(fp, " %s", tagTypeNames[type]);
> > +	    else if (ext == 1)
> > +		fprintf(fp, " -");
> > +	    if (ext == 1)
> > +		fprintf(fp, " ext");
> >  	} else {
> >  	    fprintf(fp, "%s", sname);
> >  	}
> 
> This changes rpmDisplayQueryTags output in an incompatible way.

rpm --verbose --querytags is missing in rpm 4.0.4, and is undocumented
feature of modern rpm. Should we care about compatibility in this
particular case?

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   WBR,
   Vladimir D. Seleznev