On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Chris Lumens wrote:
maybe instead of using rpm - you could still do this using yum?
import yum.rpmsack
r = yum.rpmsack.RPMDBPackageSack()
r.searchProvides(....)
or something to that effect?
Yes, we could still do it with yum. But if we do that in livecd, that
means the livecd backend requires yum which isn't so good. And if we do
it in packages.py like Jeremy suggests, but with yum, then all possible
backends will require yum, which is even worse.
Practically, it makes little difference. We don't have any other
backends in anaconda that use something other than rpm+yum, and our
separation is really pretty half-assed. But it's what we've got to work
with.
understood - I was just trying to protect anaconda from api changes in
rpm, I didn't see the other abstraction requirements for the other
backends.
-sv
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