# rpmdb Class Reference
[PYTHON.]

A python rpmdb object represents an RPM database. More...

## Detailed Description

A python rpmdb object represents an RPM database.

Instances of the rpmdb object provide access to the records of a RPM database. The records are accessed by index number. To retrieve the header data in the RPM database, the rpmdb object is subscripted as you would access members of a list.

The rpmdb class contains the following methods:

- firstkey() Returns the index of the first record in the database.
  Deprecated:
    Legacy, use rpmdbMatchIterator instead.
- nextkey(index) Returns the index of the next record after "index" in the database.
  Parameters:

    | index | current rpmdb location

  Deprecated:
    Legacy, use rpmdbMatchIterator instead.
- findbyfile(file) Returns a list of the indexes to records that own file "file".
  Parameters:

    | file | absolute path to file

- findbyname(name) Returns a list of the indexes to records for packages named "name".
  Parameters:

    | name | package name

- findbyprovides(dep) Returns a list of the indexes to records for packages that provide "dep".
  Parameters:

    | dep | provided dependency string

  To obtain a rpmdb object, the opendb function in the rpm module must be called. The opendb function takes two optional arguments. The first optional argument is a boolean flag that specifies if the database is to be opened for read/write access or read-only access. The second argument specifies an alternate root directory for RPM to use.

An example of opening a database and retrieving the first header in the database, then printing the name of the package that the header represents:

            import rpm
            rpmdb = rpm.opendb()
            index = rpmdb.firstkey()
            header = rpmdb[index]
            print header[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME]

To print all of the packages in the database that match a package name, the code will look like this:

            import rpm
            rpmdb = rpm.opendb()
            indexes = rpmdb.findbyname("foo")
            for index in indexes:
                header = rpmdb[index]
                print "%s-%s-%s" % (header[rpm.RPMTAG_NAME],
                                    header[rpm.RPMTAG_VERSION],
                                    header[rpm.RPMTAG_RELEASE])

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- python/rpmmodule.c