Re: Newbie question: rpm -V

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:21:11AM -0800, Al Pacifico wrote:
> Given the name of an rpm package, how does one verify it and gather the
> results from Python ?

Start here:

http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/rpm-python/rpm-python-slides/frames.html

The example under putting it all together shows how to verify md5 based
on md5 in header.  For other stuff - ownership, mode, mtime you can use
the stat module.

That should be enough to get you started.

Paul