[Yum-devel] API

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 14:29:25 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:56 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I wonder if there is any doc that would help me use yum api.  I have written a 
> few little scripts for myself, such as, "find all rpms installed on machine A 
> but not on machine B that are available from archives", but right now relying 
> on command line interface to yum.  My scripts are all python, it would be 
> nicer to use yum python directly.  Problem is, I don't know anything about 
> yum api (yet).

In addition to just looking at yum-utils you can also read up on things
here:

http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/lca-yum-tutorial/

We probably should convert some basic examples into docstrings.

Paul




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