Re: Looking for more info

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 21:14 -0500, Adam T. Gautier wrote:

> I am looking for general programming info for the rpm-python package.  I 
> am relatively new to python but have many years of OO experience.  Is 
> there any documentation for this package or should I just dig through 
> the source.  I am looking to write a script that will need to erase 
> packages in the rpm database just like 'rpm -e <package-name>'.  I think 
> that if I could look at some object of ducumentation I could quickly get 
> the script working.  Thanks for all your help.
> 

It's not a lot of code to do that, though. What else do you want to do
besides rpm -e?


import rpm
ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
ts.addErase('pkgname')
ts.run(callback=my_install_callback_instance)

you need the callback but you can steal that from all over. :)

-sv