Tools for inspecting RPM files in python. This module is modeled after the tarfile module.
import rpmfile
with rpmfile.open('file.rpm') as rpm:
#Inspect the RPM headers
print rpm.headers.keys()
print rpm.headers.get('arch', 'noarch')
#Extract a fileobject from the archive
fd = rpm.extractfile('./usr/bin/script')
print fd.read()
for member in rpm.getmembers():
print member
* rpmfile.RPMFile: The RPMFile object provides an interface to a RPM archive
* rpmfile.RPMInfo: An RPMInfo object represents one member in a RPMFile.
* https://bitbucket.org/krp/cpiofile
* https://github.com/mjvm/pyrpm