seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:26 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote: >>> My initial thought is if you want to use yum with scripted interactions >>> you can call the yum module api from python pretty easily these days. >>> >>> does that make sense? >> Yes, the software that handles updates is already in python. >> >> Are there any docs available for the API? >> > > limited docs, lots of good examples, though. > > For an easy way to get started look at: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SethVidal/YumCodeSnippets 1. I don't see any example equivalent to 'yum -update' there. 2. Is there any way to specify a custom configuration without writing a file and modify 'my.conf.config_file_path' ? Best regards Anders Blomdell -- Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Department of Automatic Control Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625 P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum