RPM-interface/module

Grant Edwards grant at nowhere.
Mon Jan 3 11:20:30 EST 2000


In article <iacg0wkrp3c.fsf at vier.idi.ntnu.no>, Magnus L. Hetland wrote:
>akuchlin at mems-exchange.org (Andrew M. Kuchling) writes:
>> > Thomas Weholt wrote:
>> >
>> > > Is there a RedHat package interface/module available for Python??
>> 
>> Red Hat actually wrote a Python rpm module for use in their
>> config. scripts; it's still there in both RH 6.0 and 6.1.  (In fact,
>> it looks like some functions were added in 6.1...)
>
>Hm. I was under the impression that rpm was written in Python... I
>take it it is not? 

IIRC, rpm was originally written in Python, and was later
re-written in C to improve performance.

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