Thats sounds like a very nice feature :) So, other that transactions, anything else worthy of noting? Mike -----Original Message----- From: James Olin Oden <joden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:41:19 -0400 (EDT) To: RPM Package Manager <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: RPM features and reasons to upgrade to the current version. On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Michael Honeyfield wrote: > >>> RPM 4.0.4 and later provides transaction support for RPM. > > > And to a simple person like myself, this means? > Basically, it means that if you need to install a set of rpms that all have dependencies on one another you can stack them all up on the same rpm command line, and let rpm sort out the dependencies. It, also, can support rollbacks because of this. This also means that that the sort of checks like filespace and such can be done for all packages in the transaction, before the filesystem or rpmdb is ever touched. Cheers...james > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
