The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. It also includes the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases and are intended to make it easier to create graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: Additional query format extensions have been added to handle encoding and UUID generation of package metadata. Additional *.rpm package file information (stat(2) and file digest) are now saved in an rpmdb persistently. Build options and make targets for LCOV/GCOV "make check" coverage have been added. The rpmdb is now opened earlier so that pubkeys are available when querying package files. Access of file paths in headers through rpm-python was fixed.

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