Added find_installed_packages

svn path=/; revision=138

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/trunk/src/gentoolkit/ChangeLog b/trunk/src/gentoolkit/ChangeLog
index dcb7a61..5ea8ae4 100644
--- a/trunk/src/gentoolkit/ChangeLog
+++ b/trunk/src/gentoolkit/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2004-09-27: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>
+	* Added find_installed_packages
+
 2004-09-08: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org>
 	* Reworked printing functions
 
diff --git a/trunk/src/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.py b/trunk/src/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.py
index a7f2f4d..50aad81 100644
--- a/trunk/src/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.py
+++ b/trunk/src/gentoolkit/gentoolkit.py
@@ -215,6 +215,20 @@ def find_packages(search_key, masked=False):
 			raise ValueError(e)
 	return [Package(x) for x in t]
 
+def find_installed_packages(search_key, masked=False):
+	"""Returns a list of Package objects that matched the search key."""
+	try:
+			t = vartree.dbapi.match(search_key)
+	# catch the "amgigous package" Exception
+	except ValueError, e:
+		if type(e[0]) == types.ListType:
+			t=[]
+			for cp in e[0]:
+				t += vartree.dbapi.match(cp)
+		else:
+			raise ValueError(e)
+	return [Package(x) for x in t]
+
 def find_best_match(search_key):
 	"""Returns a Package object for the best available installed candidate that
 	matched the search key. Doesn't handle virtuals perfectly"""