Auto Install Linux Rpm's

[Sells, Fred]

We would like to use Python to automatically deploy new rpm's (assuming we
first edit a file to require a new version). I've just starting looking a
the rpm module. I can build this from scratch, but was wondering if anyone
is/has solved some or all of this problem or could point me to some
"goodies" that would help.

tia

Fred

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[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

We would like to use Python to automatically deploy new rpm's (assuming we

first edit a file to require a new version). I've just starting looking a
the rpm module. I can build this from scratch, but was wondering if anyone
is/has solved some or all of this problem or could point me to some
"goodies" that would help.

"Yum" (the Fedora package manager) is written in Python, so it provides
both a good example of how to work with the Python rpm module and how to
do things like handle dependencies -- which you'll have to do if you
roll your own.

If I were you, I would probably just use Yum to do all the heavy
lifting, rather than trying to re-implement it. Then your work boils
down to:

IF (installed version of package) != (version of package in config
file) THEN
yum -y install <package>
END IF

-- Lars