Question

I am currently writing a Python script for use on Linux machines that will loop through a list of packages and update their rpm spec files on a repository to include a certain change. My difficulty is with actually getting the spec files (which are blobs?) from the git repository. Some guidance would be appreciated on how to do two things.

1. Get an rpm spec file given a package name from a git repository.
2. Put the updated spec file back (commit?)

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming the name of the file is A/b/foo.spec for package A, you would

  f = open ("repository/A/b/foo.spec")
  change_file(f)
  run_command(git add A/b/foo.spec)
  run_command(git commit -m "Changed spec file for package A")

Implement the change_file and run_command functions. The run_command functions should run their arugments inside the repository.