Jeff Johnson wrote:
On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:09 PM, dkegel wrote:
Sorry, I don't think you can install RPMs from inside another RPM.
You're wrong.
As long as concurrent access to /var/lib/rpm is enabled (the default
since rpm-4.1),
then one can run rpm -q (and rpm -Uvh) in %post.
Sure, non-ancient rpm makes it possible. Whether it's a good idea though
... I've yet to see a single case where installing an rpm from within
another made any sense to begin with.
It seems that most of the Commercial Vendors are having a contest of
finding the worst ways to abuse rpm. One of my favorites is
1) install an rpm from Vendor site
2) you look at the contents and find a tarball + a script somewhere in
/usr/src/
3) you run a script installed by that rpm as per Vendor instructions
4) the script creates another rpm which creates something you can
actually use
5) the rpm created by the script installs a tarball somewhere in
/usr/src...
6) have you ever seen the movie "Groundhog Day"?
- Panu -
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