On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:38, Armijn Hemel wrote:
> hello,
>
> I'm playing around a bit with the Python bindings for RPM. I made a small
> script which only pulls from the database what a package requires,
> nothing fancy. But, unlike for example 'rpm -qR <package-name>' I get
> some extra output.
>
> <code>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import os, sys, rpm
>
> def readRpmHeader(ts, filename):
> fd = os.open(filename, os.O_RDONLY)
> h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd)
> os.close(fd)
> return h
>
> rpm.addMacro("_dbpath",
> "/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat")
> redhatts = rpm.TransactionSet()
> redhatts.openDB()
>
> mi = redhatts.dbMatch('name', sys.argv[1])
> for h in mi:
> print "%s-%s-%s" % (h['name'], h['version'], h['release'])
> print h.dsFromHeader('requirename')
> </code>
>
> If I run this script, called rpmquery.py, for example like this:
>
> $ ./rpmquery.py rpm
>
> I get as output lines like this:
>
> R textutils
>
There is an rpm-python mailing list here:
http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-python-list
perfect for just this type of question.
-sv
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