[Yum-devel] fedorakmod.py

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 17:35 -0400, Jack Neely wrote:
> I've updated the Fedora kernel module yum plugin for the latest API.  (I
> had hoped to do a bit more than that today.)  

Okay, time to go change it again ;-P

> A goal for me has been to get this code to only use PackageObjects
> instead of a evil combination of POs and RPM headers.  While the
> PackageObject classes have improved so that the APIs are pretty similar
> I never found code in Yum that would actually populate a PackageObject
> with a RPM header from a currently installed package.  Is that hidden
> somewhere I missed?

You can do so by instantiating a YumInstalledPackage object (see
yum.packages)

Although some of this may change as Seth finishes up the rpmsack stuff

Jeremy