booty This provides a simple interface for the creation of boot loader configuration files and the addition of stanzas to said configuration files. Much of the code is originally from either anaconda or up2date. Although there's a lot of functionality here, a lot of it requires mucking with object internals for now. Also, there are some bits which are still tied into anaconda infrastructure. This will eventually be fixed, but there's just not time right now. The following bits of API can be supported, though. If you have anything you'd like in here for your own purposes, let me know and I'll see if I can add an API function that won't care about what goes on underneath. bootloader.installNewImages(kernelList, backupSuffix) where kernelList is a python list of (verRel,extraInfo) tuples, eg [("2.4.7-10smp", "smp"), ("2.4.9", None)] and backupPrefix is the suffix to use for backups (defaults to rpmsave)