Need an example program that implements rpm -pql via import rpm

[Steven W. Orr]

On 3/3/2011 11:11 PM, geremy condra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Steven W. Orr<steveo at syslang.net>  wrote:
>> I look everywhere but I couldn't find anything. Could someone please point
>> me to a small example program that does an import rpm, takes an rpm file as
>> an argument and gets the list of files contained in the file, the same as if
>> I had used the commandline
>>
>> rpm -pql foo-1.23-4.i586.rpm
>>
>> Much appreciated.

Thank you, but this is not what I was looking for. What I want is the same 
thing but uses the rpm module. After I get this piece of it working I'll be 
able to do the rest of what I want, but the important thing is that it happens 
in the context of import rpm.

Anyone?

>
> #! /usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
> import commands
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>      rpm = sys.argv[1]
>      print commands.getoutput("rpm -pql %s" % rpm)
>
>
> Input validation and help text left as an exercise for the reader.
>
> Geremy Condra


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