Re: rpm-python list

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:31, seth vidal wrote:

>  so I made this list - adrian suggested it and it seemed like a
> reasonable thing to do after talking to various folks at red hat.

Seconded, thanks!

> 1. if you could do whatever with the python bindings to rpm what would
> want to do with them?

Extract files from packages, probably most useful with non-installed
ones.  rpm2cpio|cpio can of course be used but I'd rather have a real
python API for this.

> 2. what problems do you current have using the bindings

Nonexisting documentation, no information what changes between rpm
releases... :)

> 3. what cool things are people working on doing with them

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fancix/