Dear all, I am happy to announce the release of the new rpmt tool called rpmt-py (rpmt in python). As you may know, rpmt stands for "Transactional RPM", and it is a tool to install, upgrade/downgrade and erase RPM packages in one transaction, thus allow package sets with complex dependencies to be processed at once while keeping the system in a consistent state. The rpm tool doesn't provide this functionnality so we decided to implement it for the needs of quattor (http://quattor.org). Actually, there is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110905 asking for this to be integrated into rpm but unfortunately, no action has been done there... The rpmt tool needed to be re-engineered since the ANSI/C implementation was using the rpm library (rpmlib) which is known to be very unstable (changing too frequently). In order to avoid to recode rpmt each time there is a new version of RPM we decided to search for a more stable interface... We finally found that Python could provide us this interface with its binding library named rpm-python. Finally, we have designed and implemented the new rpmt-py tool and noticed that no port was needed from the 4.2.x versions of rpmlib to the 4.3.x and the 4.4.x. For further information on this re-engineering work you can see the following url : http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a054340 rpmt-py is available on CVS (http://quattor.web.cern.ch/quattor/software.htm). For more information about rpmt-py and its usage, please check its man page, the epydoc developer documentation and the README file. Please send your feedback to this mailing list (comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc). I wish you a nice day ! Best regards, Nicolas Pinto _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
