jayvdb / rpm-py-installer

An installer to enable the RPM Python binding in any environment.

RPM Python binding Installer

rpm-py-installer is to enable the RPM Python binding in any Python environment.

The environment is non-system Python, a source compiled Python, a Python on virtualenv, pyenv environment and etc.

It installs same version's Python binding with the system RPM safely.

Install the RPM Python binding by rpm-py-installer

rpm-py-installer provides several ways to install.

Install by pip

$ rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1

$ which python
/path/to/python

$ which pip
/path/to/pip_on_the_python

$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        9.0.1
setuptools 28.8.0

$ pip install rpm-py-installer

rpm-python or rpm package for new version is installed with rpm-py-installer package.

$ pip list
Package          Version
---------------- --------
pip              9.0.1
rpm-py-installer 0.4.0
rpm-python       4.13.0.1 <= Same version with the system RPM's one.
setuptools       28.8.0

$ python -c "import rpm; print(rpm.__version__)"
4.13.0.1

Install as a required dependency for your pacakge

Add rpm-py-installer to your package's setup.py install_requires.

$ pwd
/path/to/your_project

$ vi setup.py
...
setup(
...
    install_requires=[
...
        # This installs the rpm package.
        'rpm-py-installer',
...
    ],
...
)
...

Upload your package to PyPI. And run pip install.

$ pip install your_package

Note that if you would provide your project as a RPM package, please consider to apply a conditional import to your setup.py not to provide rpm-py-installer in the environment. Refer the setup.py sample and Users Guide FAQ Q6.

Install directly without rpm-py-installer package

If you want to install the Python binding without rpm-py-installer package.

$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        9.0.1
setuptools 28.8.0

$ python -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junaruga/rpm-py-installer/master/install.py)"

$ pip list
Package          Version
---------------- --------
pip              9.0.1
rpm-python       4.13.0.1 <= Same version with the system RPM's one.
setuptools       28.8.0

Usage

See Users Guide.

Communities using rpm-py-installer

rebase-helper, koji, rpkg

License

MIT