Auto Install Linux Rpm's

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

> We would like to use Python to automatically deploy new rpm's (assuming we
> first edit a file to require a new version).  I've just starting looking a
> the rpm module.  I can build this from scratch, but was wondering if anyone
> is/has solved some or all of this problem or could point me to some
> "goodies" that would help.  

"Yum" (the Fedora package manager) is written in Python, so it provides
both a good example of how to work with the Python rpm module and how to
do things like handle dependencies -- which you'll have to do if you
roll your own.

If I were you, I would probably just use Yum to do all the heavy
lifting, rather than trying to re-implement it.  Then your work boils
down to:

  IF (installed version of package) != (version of package in config
      file) THEN
    yum -y install <package>
  END IF

-- Lars

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