Re: Getting 3rd party RPM's via an OS installer?

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Dan Stromberg - Datallegro wrote:
> But some of these 3rd party RPM's aren't very careful
> with their Requires dependencies,

Don't you just hate that?

> so if you toss those RPM's into the collection, a high percentage of
> them fail to install.

Sigh.  Yes.  Been there.  Bought the t-shirt.

> Is there some way of constructing a special RPM that
> should always be installed at the end of the tested
> RPM's, and change minimally your 3rd party RPM's to
> depend on that single RPM?  That is, without having
> a huge list of Requires in that special RPM?

You could create an rpm that depended not only on the 3rd party rpms
but also on the dependencies that you have deduced are required.  Then
install your rpm and it should bring in all of the dependencies.

Bob

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