NAME

       rpm-plugins - Plugins for the RPM Package Manager

Description

       RPM  plugins provide functionality that is not suited to be used everywhere.  They may not
       be built or shipped on some platforms or may not be  installed  or  be  disabled  on  some
       systems.

       This  allows plugins to interface with systems that may not acceptable as a dependency for
       RPM and to provide functionality that may be unwanted under some circumstances.

       For now the plugin API is internal only.  So there is a limited number of plugins  in  the
       RPM sources.

Configuration

       Some  plugins  can  be  configured  by  specific  macros  or  influenced  by  command line
       parameters.  But most can only be turned on  or  off.   See  the  plugin's  man  page  for
       details.

       Plugins  are controlled by a macro %__transaction_NAME which is set to the location of the
       plugin file.  Undefining the macro or setting it to %{nil} will prevent  the  plugin  from
       being run.

       This  can  be  done on the RPM command line e.g. with --undefine=__transaction_syslog.  To
       disable a plugin permantently drop a file in /etc/rpm/ that contains

       __transaction_NAME %{nil}

       Another option is to remove the plugin from the system if it is packaged in  its  own  sub
       package.

       For  some operations it may be desirable to disable all plugins at once.  This can be done
       by passing --noplugins to rpm at the command line.

SEE ALSO

       rpm(8) rpm-plugin-audit(8) rpm-plugin-ima(8) rpm-plugin-prioreset(8) rpm-plugin-selinux(8)
       rpm-plugin-syslog(8) rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit(8)

                                           29 Jan 2020                             RPM-PLUGINS(8)