rpm_query

This is a simple project that aims:

• How to write a class that can query the contents of the RPM database
• How to package and distribute a python application using setuptools
• How to write nice command line arguments with argparse and rich, tkinter, DearPyGUI

Local installation

Pre-requisites

Install python3-rpm

sudo dnf install -y python3-rpm

Create a virtual environment with system site packages

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages ~/virtualenv/rpm_query
. ~/virtualenv/rpm_query/bin/activate

All the commands will assume you successfully activated your virtual environment

Create the editable package

(rpm_query) [josevnz@dmaf5 rpm_query]$ python setup.py develop

Remember when you are done you can remove the development mode:

python setup.py develop --uninstall

Compiling the package

Bumping the version

Just change the value of the ‘version’ variable in the rpm_query package.

Wheel package

(rpm_query) [josevnz@dmaf5 rpm_query]$ python setup.py bdist_wheel
running bdist_wheel
...

Installation

(rpm_query) [josevnz@dmaf5 rpm_query]$ python setup.py install dist/rpm_query-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl

Tutorial

There is a 3 part tutorial that explains how and why this code was written. In order:

• Writing and unit testing an application to query the RPM database with Python
• Packaging an application to query an RPM database with Python
• Writing UI applications that can query the RPM database with Python