[Rpm-maint] Python "rpm --verify"

[Mike Brady]

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Thanks for the quick response.  I am working on the bcfg2 project
http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2.

The client side has drivers that support various aspects of a client's
configuration.  One of the areas to cover is package management. There
are RPM and YUM drivers, but they need to be reworked because they have
a number of issues.

Functionality is nothing earth shattering:
query (rpm -qa) for inventory
verify (rpm -V)
add (rpm -i and rpm -U)
remove (rpm -e)

I have already done quite a bit of research and playing around with
code.  I was hoping someone else may already done some of the work.
Never mind, I guess I will have to start coding for real now.

Thanks

Mike

seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 13:50 +1300, Mike Brady wrote:
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>> I am invloved in writing some sysadmin tools in Python and am looking
>> for rpm --verify functionality that is directly accessible in Python.
>> Meaning that I do not want to use popen or any of its cohorts.
>>
>> I can't see anything in rpm-python.  Is there anything around to do
>> this?  I don't want to be recreating the wheel.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 
> There isn't anything that does that automatically. you'd need to do
> something like: (in pseudocode)
> 
> for package in the rpmdb:
>    for file in package:
>       get md5sum from pkg hdr
>       get md5sum from file on disk
>       compare md5sums
> 
> What is your end goal that you're doing this for? I'm curious b/c it is
> something I've wanted to have time to implement.
> 
> Thanks,
> -sv
> 
> 
> 

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