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libguestfs/daemon/rpm.ml
Richard W.M. Jones c9ee831aff inspection: Fix inspection of recent RPM guests using non-BDB.
Recent RPM-based guests have switched from using Berkeley DB (BDB) to
sqlite.  In order to inspect these guests (and earlier ones) we need
to stop using the hokey parsing of the BDB and use librpm APIs
instead.

This commit adds a new internal API so we can call librpm from the
daemon, and changes the library part to use the new API for RPM-based
guests.

This change removes the requirement for BDB tools like db_dump.

See also:
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2021-March/000751.html
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2021-March/000754.html
https://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/08/programmatically-retrieve-rpm-package-details.html

This breaks the virt-inspector test (now in the separate guestfs-tools
repository).  However this is not a bug in libguestfs, but a bug in
the phoney Fedora guest that we use for testing - we created a
BDB-style RPM database which was supposed to be just enough to make
the old code work.  The new code using real librpm needs
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc (not present in the phoney image) and also cannot
parse the phoney database, so we will need to separately rework that
test.

Thanks: Panu Matilainen
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1766487
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409024
2021-03-26 16:26:00 +00:00

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(* guestfs-inspection
* Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Red Hat Inc.
*
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*)
open Printf
open Std_utils
external rpm_init : unit -> unit = "guestfs_int_daemon_rpm_init"
external rpm_start_iterator : unit -> unit = "guestfs_int_daemon_rpm_start_iterator"
external rpm_next_application : unit -> Structs.application2 = "guestfs_int_daemon_rpm_next_application"
external rpm_end_iterator : unit -> unit = "guestfs_int_daemon_rpm_end_iterator"
(* librpm is troublesome when run from the main process. In
* particular it holds open some glibc NSS files. Therefore we fork
* before doing the chroot and any librpm operations.
*
* We could also consider in future limiting the time taken to run the
* subprocess since it's unclear that parsing RPM config files from
* the guest in particular is safe.
*)
let rec internal_list_rpm_applications () =
let chroot = Chroot.create ~name:"librpm" () in
let apps = Chroot.f chroot list_rpm_applications () in
eprintf "librpm returned %d installed packages\n%!" (List.length apps);
apps
and list_rpm_applications () =
rpm_init ();
rpm_start_iterator ();
let ret = ref [] in
let rec loop () =
try
let app = rpm_next_application () in
List.push_front app ret;
loop ()
with Not_found -> ()
in
loop ();
rpm_end_iterator ();
List.sort
(fun { Structs.app2_name = n1 } { Structs.app2_name = n2 } ->
compare n1 n2)
!ret