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

[Steven W. Orr]

On 3/4/2011 10:24 AM, Daniel Mahoney wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:24:24 -0500, Steven W. Orr 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.
>>
>> TIA
>
> This is just a quick and dirty script, but how about:
>
> import os
> import rpm
> import sys

I am at peace with the universe.

Thanks :-)

>
> ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
> fd = os.open(sys.argv[1], os.O_RDONLY)
> h = ts.hdrFromFdno(fd)
> os.close(fd)
>
> flist = h.fiFromHeader()
> for file in flist:
>      print file[0]
>
>
>
> Dan


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