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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Nathan G. Kinder, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Matthew Harmsen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Nathan G. Kinder, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Matthew Harmsen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An RPM subsystem can be installed on a system that has its own native packaging subsystem. The RPM subsystem is initially delivered as a package wrapped in the non-RPM format of the native packaging system and installed. When an RPM package is installed, the RPM subsystem is also configured to create a stub entry in the native packaging, non-RPM system. The stub entry may contain the normal package information, such as name, version, description, as well as a list of files contained in a package. The stub may also contain uninstallation logic, which serves as a 'callback' into the RPM subsystem during package removal and causes the RPM subsystem to remove the package when invoked. Removal of a RPM package via RPM tools also causes the removal of the stub entry.