tir, 07.09.2004 kl. 07.24 skrev Panu Matilainen: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 03:00, seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:26 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 21:38 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > > > > > Is there any plans for integrating rpm with yum - so that rpm would ask > > > > "you need dependancy foo, bar, baz.so in order to install this package, > > > > shall i ask yum to fetch them for you? (y/n)" > > > > > > Instead of integrating yum into rpm, just use a tool (such as yum > > > itself) to install your packages instead of rpm. I don't know offhand > > > if yum already supports this, but if not, it should. ;-) > > > > > > The graphical tools like system-install-packages and friends should also > > > then integrate with yum. > > > > > > I'm sure the maintainers will accept patches for such a feature. ;-) > > > > The question becomes how to do this sensibly. > > > > yum install /some/path/to/an/rpm > > > > that's possible > > > > except I get an equal number of requests for: > > > > yum install /some/file/that/some/package/in/a/repository/provides. > > > > it's not impossible to check for but it means searching harder. > > Might be harder to search for but that IS an awfully nice and useful > feature. > > - Panu - > > Yes, that is one way to solve it. What i was more thinking about, was really "integrating" (sorry if i use the wrong wording) yum into rpm. Yum has an API, yes? Only that will create a circular dependence rpm/yum - make it a compile option? But something that WILL be needed if this actually gets implemented, is some "--noyumdepsolve" and "--silent-answer-yes" flags - rpm is very useful also in scripts. (is there some way to detect if a program is getting called by a script (non-interactive) or by an actual person on a terminal? If so, --silent-answer-yes should be default imo. That option could be _very_ useful when talking about rpm that require a license to be read etc. (ever tried installing the Macromedia Flash rpm's through a script? /me likes Dag Wieers, who makes good non-interactive flash-rpms...) Ofcourse it is possible to tell people to use yum instead of rpm - but how nice is that? "Hey all you people, forget about rpm - always use yum instead!!" - or not? "rpm -ivh two-lettersTAB" is something that is built into my fingers... But a new tool could work (something like "rpm-depsolve -ivh my-package.fc2.rpm" Only problem now is actually finding a good programmer, and a good way to do this.
