On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:45 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote: > 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' ? import yum my = yum.YumBase() # specify config file my._getConfig(fn='/path/to/conf/file') # update all my.update() my.resolveDeps() my.processTransaction() does that help? If you have immediate questions you can also pop in #yum on irc.freenode.net - someone in there can frequently help. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
