RPM error

[CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr]

Hi folks
I am new to python
I am trying to write a program that will install rpm
using rpm -ivh xxx.rpm

I want to know if python has in-built exceptions to catch no-
dependencies error.

If not how can i build them

thanks

[Steven Howe]

CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr wrote:

Hi folks
I am new to python
I am trying to write a program that will install rpm
using rpm -ivh xxx.rpm

I want to know if python has in-built exceptions to catch no-
dependencies error.

If not how can i build them

thanks

not really sure where your going with this... but
you could use popen3 to redirect the StdError and StdOut of rpm to
files. Then read those
files (in particular StdError) for dependency output

*popen3*( cmd[, mode[, bufsize]])

Executes cmd as a sub-process. Returns the file objects
|(child_stdin, child_stdout, child_stderr)|. Availability:
Macintosh, Unix, Windows. New in version 2.0.
if your app doesn't wnat to wait, you can use os.spawn functions

*P_NOWAIT*

*P_NOWAITO*
Possible values for the mode parameter to the spawn*() family of
functions. If either of these values is given, the spawn*()
functions will return as soon as the new process has been created,
with the process ID as the return value. Availability: Macintosh,
Unix, Windows. New in version 1.6.

*P_WAIT*
Possible value for the mode parameter to the spawn*() family of
functions. If this is given as mode, the spawn*() functions will not
return until the new process has run to completion and will return
the exit code of the process the run is successful, or |-signal| if
a signal kills the process. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
New in version 1.6.

sph