Initial implementation

[nforro]

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[TomasTomecek]

I am confused now: when I install the module to user sitelib, I can no longer import rpm:

// /src is a bindmount of this PR inside a container
[root@a59648fe38f0 src]# pip3 install --user .                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Processing /src      
  Installing build dependencies ... done                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  Installing backend dependencies ... done                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Building wheels for collected packages: rpm                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  Building wheel for rpm (pyproject.toml) ... done                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  Created wheel for rpm: filename=rpm-0.0.post7+g403cc33-py3-none-any.whl size=3497 sha256=bef24c750e69aafdc14073985ae4eecff4472bb3b7d8b03aebcb34b4a43ec97d                                                                                                 
  Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-gmnf2sfk/wheels/a0/a1/77/062e875f5b546d9255c4403d3277b732c25c5e17cdbf8d14d3                                                                                                                                
Successfully built rpm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Installing collected packages: rpm
Successfully installed rpm-0.0.post7+g403cc33
WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv

[root@a59648fe38f0 src]# cd /

[root@a59648fe38f0 /]# python3 -c 'import rpm'                                                                                 
Exception: module 'rpm' has no attribute 'expandMacro'
Exception: module 'rpm' has no attribute 'expandMacro'
Exception: Failed to import system RPM module

[TomasTomecek]

hmm, the logic looks okay here: check all paths until one works, otherwise raise ImportError

[nforro]

I am confused now: when I install the module to user sitelib, I can no longer import rpm:

Does the container have RPM python bindings installed?
You can also try to enable debug logging: python -c 'import logging; logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG); import rpm'

[TomasTomecek]

yes, the proper rpm bindings were installed

I don't know what went wrong exactly, let's keep it as it is right now and do another "usability testing" round before announcing this module publicly

[nforro]

Ok, Zuul is not enabled yet, so let me merge this manually.