On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:27 +0000, Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > This may be a yum question or it may be an rpm question but i'll got for > yum for now. > > Basically i have packages that are provided by a third party that go to > make up the 'application' - There are in fact 4 different types of > applications that these rpms can make up depending on which ones are > installed. Alas this third party cant build rpm's correctly and they are > not dependent on each other nor are they built in such a way tha if you > install them all at once they sort themselves out, they need to be > installed in a 'sequence' > > So.... > > Can i somehow tell yum in some way that in order to install application > X install rpms a, b and c in the order b, a and then c ? > > If not then i think the only way around this so i can install the app > with a yum install X is to create a single rpm that has the other > packages as dependencies and fix it that way but i thought there must be > a better way? > > I hope that makes sense, and alas getting the vendor to fix it their end > it futile. > if there's no interdependency or ordering information at all then you may have to do the above. Alternatively, you can try using a yum shell script something like echo -e "install pkg1\ninstall pkg2\ninstall pkg3\ninstall pkg4\nrun\n" | yum shell -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
