Re: Treating 'not found' packages as errors

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:31 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:

> now the problem is that this program:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import yum, os, sys
> 
> my = yum.YumBase()
> my.conf.basecachedir = '/tmp/whereever'
> if not os.path.exists(my.conf.basecachedir):
>     os.makedirs(my.conf.basecachedir)
> my.conf.cache = 0
> my.repos.setCacheDir(my.conf.basecachedir)
> 
> my.install(name='xpdf')
> my.install(name='xwnc')
> my.resolveDeps()
> my.processTransaction()
> 
> when run as root correctly installs xpdf and xwnc, but when run as an ordinary
> user just quitely does nothing. How do I check if installation is successful?

take a look at the code for processTransaction() and the callback it can
take.
the callback will be helpful to you

and also take a look at what my.install() returns - it returns a list of
TransactionMember objects for the pkgs it added to the transaction.

-sv