On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:44:20AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote to To General discussion about the RPM package manager: > Hi, > Quoting Florian Festi <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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! Self-extracting file sounds like what you need: http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818 Enjoy! Don -- ......................................................... . Don Harper, RHCE . Worry often gives a small thing . . duck@xxxxxxxxxxxx . a big shadow. - Swedish proverb . . www.donharper.org . . .........................................................
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