Re: need some help!

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Basem Narmok wrote:

> Hi all,
> I had a small script that worked for a while, but now days on rhel4 it 
> doesn't !!
>
> consider this:
>
> mi=ts.dbMatch("name","foo")
> for hdr in mi:  #*THE PROBLEM HERE!*
>  print "%s-%s-%s" % (hdr[name], hdr[version], hdr[release])
>
> the script just doesn't go in the for loop!! what is the problem?

There's no package "foo" installed? This certainly works for me on rhel 4 
and others:

---
#!/usr/bin/python

import rpm
import sys

ts = rpm.TransactionSet()

mi=ts.dbMatch("name",sys.argv[1])
for hdr in mi:
     print "%s-%s-%s" % (hdr["name"], hdr["version"], hdr["release"])
---

[pmatilai@localhost ~]$ ./pytest.py kernel
kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL

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