On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 07:09, Smith, Eric V. wrote: > I'm having problems installing multiple rpm's with the same yum > invocation, if the first rpm is installed. For example, I have > cyrus-imap installed, but not cyrus-imapd-utils. I'm running a script > that decides it wants to install both of these packages. The script > isn't smart enough to know what's already installed, so it just runs yum > to install both. Yum says: > > [root@saltwood root]# yum -y install cyrus-imapd cyrus-imapd-utils > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: ReadHat Linux 8.0 Base > Getting headers from: evs local packages > Getting headers from: ReadHat Linux 8.0 Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > cyrus-imapd is installed and is the latest version. > > But it doesn't try to install cyrus-imapd-utils. Is this a bug, or > expected behavior? My solution so far has been to run yum once for > every package I want to install, but that's much slower. If neither rpm > is installed, then the above command will install both rpms. > > I haven't tried this with more that 2 rpms, but I assume it's just > stopping on the first one it finds is already installed. > > I'm running yum-1.0-1_80 on RH 8.0, if that makes a difference. > It's expected behavior. yum update acts similarly - if you invoke it with yum update pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 and pkg1 is fully updated then it will exit, too. How would you expect it to work? -sv
