Re: No viewer for RPM files

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com> writes:
>
> > What about Gnorpm? What would it take to add
> > a switch to select a file? (I don't have the source handy)
>
> gnorpm is highly buggy/broken.
I didn't know.
I've always prefered the command line :)
one of the reasons I can't remember the nice, neat,
new GUI config tools.

> > Or a modified rpm2html that works on 1 file creating
> > a HTML file in /tmp or /var/tmp that  lists the
> > info, provides, requires, and files in the rpm?
> >
> > I could write a perl script to do it, but python would
> > probably fit Red Hat better.
>
> Not really a very good solution, though. :-/
What should a be seen/done by a handler for rpm?
I was thinking the normal action would show
the above info. And then have options for intstall and
upgrade,  Not sure how to tell nautilus to give multiple
options though.

The last 2 would call rpm -[iU] porobbably with a root-wrapper
like userhelper to get the correct privleges to install a package.

The viewer could be tk, perl, or python to give a GUI, that uses
rpm bindings to librpm to get the info.
Where's a nice tutorial and sample python app to start with?

   -Thomas