Re: Creating a "super rpm" that installs other rpms

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On 12/18/2012 02:39 AM, Fred White wrote:
I'm creating a "super rpm" which in turn installs other rpms, and
executes a script and performs non-interactive installation (using
expect). These are application specific RPMs and are currently not
available in our rhn/spacewalk channels. These RPMs needs to be
installed in a specific order and some of them also needs to be

Just create rpm which just contains script:
  your-product-configure
and do all that work there. Do not try to do that in %install.
And in that script do all that "spacewalk-channel --add" and you can even be interactive there if you want to (you could not be interactive in %install).

installed with nodeps (rpm -i --nodeps),

nodeps in production is highway to hell.

Of course such package could not get into Fedora until you get there all dependecies, but I have feeling, that this is not your goal.

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