Erasing an RPM

Having installed an RPM it is only natural want to know how to remove one. This is done by calling ts.addErase() by name.

import rpm
ts=rpm.ts()
ts.addErase("foo")
	  

If you want to remove a particular package instance you can do this by getting the package instance by querying the database.

mi = ts.dbMatch(rpm.RPMTAG_NAME, "kernel")
mi.pattern(rpm.RPMTAG_ARCH, rpm.RPMMIRE_DEFAULT, "i386")
for idx in mi:
    instance = mi.instance()
    ts.addErase(instance)