Python RPM and CentOS

[Ken Godee]

The reasonable thing would be to use "yum".


> Not really a Python question, but I thought some on this list may be 
> able to answer.... so here goes:
> 
> I have several machines on which I must install CentOS. There are many 
> updates to CentOS and it's very time consuming to do the updates over 
> the network. I have a local copy of all of the updated rpms. Would it be 
> reasonable to do something like this to upgrade them locally and more 
> quickly than over the network???
> 
> updated_rpms = [list of updated rpms]
> 
> for f in updated_rpms:
> 
>      try:
>          os.popen("/bin/rpm --nodeps -U %s" %f)
> 
>      except Exception, e:
>          print e
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> rbt