Given an rpm package name, query the yum database for updates

Question

I was imagining a 3-line Python script to do this but the yum Python API is impenetrable. Is this even possible?

Is writing a wrapper for \'yum list package-name\'

Answer 1

http://fpaste.org/paste/2453

and there are many examples of the yum api and some guides to getting started with it here:

http://yum.baseurl.org/#DeveloperDocumentationExamples