Re: New packages: feature

[Phil D'Amore]

Yeah, rpm is unable to automatically handle the dependencies, unless all 
packages involved are presented on the command line.  About all it can 
do is package ordering.  Many folks try to directly link the 
functionality of rpm to something like apt-get, when up2date, which just 
sits on top of rpm anyhow, is a better comparison.

That aside, this is probably a good compromise between the two methods.

Alexander Jolk wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  
>
> > Do you
> > think it'd be better to gather a list of packages to be installed and
> > run the command in one go, or run the command for each package?  
> >    
>
> I know that rpm is too stupid to sort out dependencies; in my hand-made
> scripts, I had to make sure everyhting got passed on the command line in
> one go.  (Everybody's not yet apt out there...)
>
> Why don't you use some kind of place holder in the install command? 
> SOmething like
> DefaultInstallCommand = ( /sbin/apt-get install %p )
> where %p expands to a single package to install, or
> DefaultInstallCommand = ( /sbin/rpm -i %P )
> where %P expands to the list of all packages to install?
>
> Alex
>
>  

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