On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, root wrote:
> Hello Friends,
> I am in immediate need of some help and suggestions. I want to read all
> the rpms currently installed in my system and then process the
> information. I adopted some weired method to do this but its slow.
>
> #Generate the rpm list and store in the temporary file
> os.system("rpm -qa >> /tmp/rpm.tmp")
>
> I want to latter process this data. I want information about all that
> contents in a particular rpm. If someone has seen the rpm-analyser
> (http://www.maisondubonheur.com/rpm-analyzer/#about) is would be clear.
> I would like to have all the info for a particular rpm is its verion,
> Provider, Packager, Summary etc.
>
> Now i want to know what is rpm.py module and whether i can use in for
> this purpose or any other suggestions would be appreciated.
You don't say what exactly you want to do with the data but I suppose
this'll get you going .. the following bit goes through all packages
installed on your system and prints out the package name, version, summary
+ packager:
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#!/usr/bin/python
import rpm
ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
for hdr in ts.dbMatch():
print hdr['Name'], hdr['Version'], hdr['Summary'], hdr['Packager']
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Oh and while not terribly off-topic here either but there's a dedicated
mailing list for rpm-python bindings here:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-python-list
- Panu -
