Is it legal to embed one rpm in another? I was recently reviewing a .spec file and saw a construction I did not think was legal -- the person had included a different rpm in the %files section and did an rpm -i during the installation (this particular rpm did not build the product, it only installed it). At one time, I know that rpm got an exclusive lock on the db, and the lock was not inherited, so trying to embed one rpm in another lead to a failed installation. I tried the installer on RHEL 3 (rpm 4.2.2), and it seemed to work correctly. So is embedding an rpm supposed to work? If yes, does anyone know from which version of rpm it worked? _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
