I'm afraid it doesn't really. I have no access to the target systems, neither can I expect the installers to do operations like this, I think.-----Original Message-----Behalf Of Tom Diehl
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ASent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:09 AM To: RPM Mailing List Subject: Re: What tools to use for multipackage download and install?
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
We have some software for Linux, mainly Red Hat 7.3 or 9, distributed
across the net in the form of multiple, interdependent rpm packages.
user will typically install one "application" package that utilises a
alsonumber of custom "base" or "library" packages. These in turn rely on "OS" packages, as well as some external freeware packages that are somewhat non-standard and may or may not be installed already; we
provide our own versions of these in case they are needed.Have a look at either yum (http://linux.duke.edu/yum/) or apt-rpm. Yum
will allow things like yum >install foo. Where foo is the package name you want to install. It will resolve the deps and pull >in the needed packages for you (assuming they are available). I am told apt-rpm will do the same >thing although I have no personal experience with it.
Recent versions of rpm have some good support for automatic dependency resolution built right in; the --aid option. First, use 'rpmcache' to create the reference database. Then, adjust the following macros in the target system. Example:
%_solve_dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/%{_arch}-%{_vendor}-%{_os}/redhat %_solve_pkgsdir /8.0/i386/ %_solve_name_fmt %{?_solve_pkgsdir}%%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
Then, 'rpm -i --aid <package>' should be hands-free. Here's one caveat:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/rpm-list/2003-January/msg00075.htm l
Hope this helps.
- Toralf
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