RPM-PLUGIN-DBUS-ANNOUNCE(8)

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version 6.1.0 · 9 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💖 RPM-PLUGIN-DBUS-ANNOUNCE 💖

okay bestie, so this is rpm-plugin-dbus-announce — it's a D-Bus plugin for the RPM Package Manager, and it lives over in the System Manager's Manual section 8. yes, section 8. the spicy one. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

rpm-plugin-dbus-announce — the D-Bus plugin for the RPM Package Manager, and honestly? she's just here to spill the tea about what rpm is doing. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, the way this works is: the plugin writes basic info about rpm transactions to the system D-Bus — stuff like packages installed or removed. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. 💖

Other programs can subscribe to those signals so they get notified whenever the packages on the system change. it's giving "group chat notification for your entire OS." 🔥

🦋 D-BUS SIGNALS 🦋

she sends StartTransaction, EndTransaction, StartTransactionDetails and EndTransactionDetails messages, and they all come from the /org/rpm/Transaction object with the org.rpm.Transaction interface. iconic address, no notes. ✨

The first two signals — so StartTransaction and EndTransaction — pass the DB cookie as a string, plus the transaction id as an unsigned 32 bit integer. short, sweet, slay. 💅

The second two — the "details" ones, StartTransactionDetails and EndTransactionDetails — also pass the DB cookie as a string and the transaction id as an unsigned 32 bit integer, and then in addition they hand over an array of strings containing a space-separated string of values describing the operation and the package NEVRA that are part of the transaction. and then the last argument? a signed integer with the transaction result. she gives you the whole story, periodt. 😭✨

And the package operation can be one of "added", "removed", "rpmdb" or "restored" — and yeah the quotes are for clarity only, don't come for me. 🙈

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

There are currently no options for this plugin in particular. like, none. zero. a clean girl, no settings. 🧚

But if you wanna know how to control plugins in general, go read rpm-plugins(8) — she'll hook you up.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ngl, no warnings, no bugs, no deprecated flags here — this page is just that uncomplicated. 🌈

and that's the whole vibe check bestie 🫶 this was RPM 6.1.0 documentation, dated 2026-08-20, and you just read the RPM-PLUGIN-DBUS-ANNOUNCE(8) page of the System Manager's Manual. go forth and subscribe to some signals, you main character. 💜🎀

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