A program in Python to get Source RPM's from cvs

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paty Constantino wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm doing a program in Python, which for now is taking an application name and gives you the corresponding source rpm, if
> you run the program the first thing that will appear is this:
>

Here's the equivalent using the yum modules:

import yum
import rpmUtils.miscutils

my = yum.YumBase()
my.conf.cache = 1
p = my.pkgSack.searchNevra(name='yum')[0]
print rpmUtils.miscutils.splitFilename(p.sourcerpm)

that should give you a tuple of name, ver, release, arch


also see yumdownloader --source

-sv