alpm.c

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/*
 *  alpm.c
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 2002-2007 by Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
 *  Copyright (c) 2005 by Aurelien Foret <orelien@chez.com>
 *  Copyright (c) 2005 by Christian Hamar <krics@linuxforum.hu>
 *  Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 by Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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 */

#include "config.h"

/* libalpm */
#include "alpm.h"
#include "alpm_list.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "handle.h"
#include "util.h"

/* Globals */
enum _pmerrno_t pm_errno SYMEXPORT;

/** \addtogroup alpm_interface Interface Functions
 * @brief Functions to initialize and release libalpm
 * @{
 */

/** Initializes the library.  This must be called before any other
 * functions are called.
 * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly)
 */
int SYMEXPORT alpm_initialize(void)
{
    ASSERT(handle == NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_HANDLE_NOT_NULL, -1));

    handle = _alpm_handle_new();
    if(handle == NULL) {
        RET_ERR(PM_ERR_MEMORY, -1);
    }

#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
    bindtextdomain("libalpm", LOCALEDIR);
#endif

    return(0);
}

/** Release the library.  This should be the last alpm call you make.
 * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly)
 */
int SYMEXPORT alpm_release(void)
{
    ALPM_LOG_FUNC;

    ASSERT(handle != NULL, RET_ERR(PM_ERR_HANDLE_NULL, -1));

    if(alpm_db_unregister_all() == -1) {
        return(-1);
    }

    _alpm_handle_free(handle);

    return(0);
}

/** @} */

/** @defgroup alpm_misc Miscellaneous Functions
 * @brief Various libalpm functions
 */

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