On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:51:11AM -0800, Baz wrote: > 3. Could you please explain your need more clearly and reasoning behind > it. Remember rpm installs are meant to be non-interactive and can be done > via the api/depsolver bypassing the command line. If every RPM starts having requirements for custom command-line options, how is an installer program supposed to know what options it ought to feed to which package? This is really asking for trouble. > So, nobody actually pass parameters, values while doing "rpm -i"??? How > does one able to do what I want to do in their installation? I am sure > that it is not uncommon to do it, am i right? In order: right; do it at runtime instead of at install time; zero = extremely uncommon. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list