PyRPM

authors:	Stefan Richter, Mário Morgado
license:	BSD

PyRPM is a pure python module to extract information from a RPM package and to create YUM metadata. Supports generation/editing YUM repositories.

Usage

>>> from pyrpm.rpm import RPM
>>> rpm = RPM(open('package-1.0-r1.i586.rpm', 'rb') # make sure to open the file in binary mode
>>> rpm.binary # this means that the package is a rpm and not a src.rpm
True
>>> rpm.header.name
'package'
>>> rpm.header.architecture
'i586'
>>> rpm.header.description
'package description'

YUM Repository

>>> from pyrpm.yum import YumPackage
>>> repo = YumRepository("testrepo")
>>> # read existing repo
>>> repo.read()
>>> # add package
>>> repo.add_package(YumPackage(open(os.path.join(repo.repodir, 'tst/Eterm-0.9.3-5mdv2007.0.src.rpm'), 'rb')))
>>> # delete package
>>> repo.remove_package('4d9c71201f9c0d11164772600d7dadc2cad0a01ac4e472210641e242ad231b3a')
>>> repo.save()