Hi,
Quoting Florian Festi <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
[snip]
>> When you run "rpm -U foo.rpm" it installs a bunch of RPM files.
>> So foo.rpm installs /usr/lib/foo/packages/foo-{1,2,3}.rpm
>> Then in the foo.rpm %post script I want to:
>>
>> rpm -U foo-1.rpm foo-2.rpm foo-3.rpm
>>
>> Is there a good way to do this?
>
> There are some good ways to install a collection of rpms. Packaging them
> into another rpm is none of them.
That is very unfortunate.
> You can create a meta package - an rpm that requires the others but does not
> contain them. This has the disadvantage that the users still can't easily
> see which is the meta package and why it is there. Choosing a good name can
> help.
>
> The better solution would be to use the layer above rpm to solve this if you
> can specialize to a given distribution. You could create a yum repository
> with the rpms and put them into a yum group (assuming you package for a yum
> based distribution).
I'm afraid I forgot to mention the primary goal: I want users to only
have to download a single "file" from me and that file should contain
all the "stuff" they need. However that "stuff" is comprised of a bunch
of RPMs.
Using yum doesn't help, because I don't want to depend on the end user
being able to reach my server. Moreover, there's no way I know of to
create a meta-rpm that both creates the yum repository information and
then goes off and pulls in additional RPMs from that newly installed
repository.
You're right that a meta-RPM is exactly closest to what I want, but
I'm trying to design a meta-RPM that installs itself before trying
to pull in the dependent RPMS. Even better, I'd like the meta-RPM
to install the dependent RPM files into the local filesystem directly!
> In the end you can still repackage the content of the rpms into one. If you
> don't have the source rpms you can extract the content with rpm2cpio
> and cpio.
Unfortunately this loses the scripts that are in the individual RPMS.
That would defeat the purpose of this game totally.
I could just not use an RPM and instead use something like shar.
But again that sort of defeats the purpose. :(
Any other ideas? no hidden "--recursive" options to rpm?
> Florian
-derek
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