README

rpmt-py - A transactional RPM (Python version)
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1. Presentation 
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rpmt-py is a tool to install, upgrade and erase RPM packages in one transaction, 
thus allow package sets with complex dependencies to be processed at once while 
keeping the system in a consistent state.

There was a need for such a program, because the classic front-end to the RPM 
package manager (rpm) only allows one type of such action in a transaction.

rpmt-py is part of the Quattor administration toolkit, see http://quattor.org 
for more information about rpmt-py and Quattor.

rpmt-py is inspired on RedHat's rpm and based on rpm-python binding library 
(itself based on rpmlib).


2. Differences with the 'old' rpmt (ANSI/C version 4.2.1)
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- Input file (transaction actions) is now specified using -iFILE or --in=FILE.	

- Now the --oldpackage option is assumed for the whole transaction.

- The cache directory for downloading remote files can now be specified using
the --cachedir option. In addition, we can avoid the clean up of this directory
by using the --noclean option.



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For more information about rpmt-py, please check its man page.

Nicolas Pinto <nicolas dot pinto at cern dot ch>