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6 rpm-plugins - Plugins for the RPM Package Manager
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10 RPM plugins provide functionality that is not suited to be used every‐
11 where. They may not be built or shipped on some platforms or may not be
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14 This allows plugins to interface with systems that may not acceptable
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18 For now the plugin API is internal only. So there is a limited number
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27 Plugins are controlled by a macro %__transaction_NAME which is set to
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45 rpm(8) rpm-plugin-audit(8) rpm-plugin-ima(8) rpm-plugin-prioreset(8)
46 rpm-plugin-selinux(8) rpm-plugin-syslog(8) rpm-plugin-systemd-
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51Red Hat, Inc. 29 Jan 2020 RPM-PLUGINS(8)