On 27 Mar 2005, at 8:03, Colin Walters wrote:
> Part of the reason I ask is I'm wondering what is (or will
be) the
> correct way to query locally installed RPMs.
I think Robin's correct; your best bet now is just to invoke rpm.
Alternatively there might be Java bindings to the librpm.
I haven't used this, but found it by accident some time ago and
bookmarked it. It might give the start you're after.
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