[Yum] Treating 'not found' packages as errors

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:26 +0200, Anders Blomdell wrote:
> > My initial thought is if you want to use yum with scripted interactions
> > you can call the yum module api from python pretty easily these days.
> > 
> > does that make sense?
> Yes, the software that handles updates is already in python.
> 
> Are there any docs available for the API?
> 

limited docs, lots of good examples, though.

For an easy way to get started look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SethVidal/YumCodeSnippets


> BTW: My software for updates is at
> http://www.control.lth.se/user/andersb/software/mio/ but docs are [currently and
> for some time now] badly out of sync...

I know that feeling.

-sv