ruby-rpm 1.2.3

ruby-rpm project provides bindings for accessing RPM packages and databases from Ruby. It includes the low-level C API to talk to rpm as well as Ruby classes to model the various objects that RPM deals with (such as packages, dependencies, and files).

Installation:

De-Compress archive and enter its top directory.

Then type:

$ ruby install.rb config
$ ruby install.rb setup
$ su
# ruby setup.rb install

You can also install files into your favorite directory by supplying install.rb some options. Try "ruby setup.rb --help".

Usage:

require 'rpm'

Requirements:

· ruby 1.6
· gcc
· rpm 4.0.0 or newer (tested on 4.0.4 and 4.2.1)

What's New in This Release:

· A hash method has been added. for RPM::Version.
· Zero epoch is treated the same as no epoch in RPM::Version::.



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