Re: Treating 'not found' packages as errors

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:45 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:26 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> >>> My initial thought is if you want to use yum with scripted interactions
> >>> you can call the yum module api from python pretty easily these days.
> >>>
> >>> does that make sense?
> >> Yes, the software that handles updates is already in python.
> >>
> >> Are there any docs available for the API?
> >>
> > 
> > limited docs, lots of good examples, though.
> > 
> > For an easy way to get started look at:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SethVidal/YumCodeSnippets
> 
> 1. I don't see any example equivalent to 'yum -update' there.
> 2. Is there any way to specify a custom configuration without writing a file and
> modify 'my.conf.config_file_path' ?


import yum
my = yum.YumBase()
# specify config file
my._getConfig(fn='/path/to/conf/file')
# update all
my.update()
my.resolveDeps()
my.processTransaction()



does that help? If you have immediate questions you can also pop in #yum
on irc.freenode.net - someone in there can frequently help.

-sv