At 09:53 PM 15/11/00 +0530, Madhavi wrote:
>Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
>
> > Madhavi proclaimed:
> > > > I want to install a bundle of rpms.
> > > u can try rpm -ivh 'ls *.rpm` at the $ prompt but if there r any
> > > dependencies this may fail..
> >
> > Here is an interesting question. If I did 'rpm -ivh foo.rpm bar.rpm and
> > baz.rpm' AND foo.rpm depends on baz.rpm being installed, would the
> > command still work? Or would it fail with a dependancy problem? If I
> > were to do the same thing using dpkg - 'dpkg --install foo.deb bar.deb
> > baz.deb' - dpkg is smart enough to understand that foo.deb depends on
> > baz.deb and it installs baz.deb first
>
>As far as my understanding goes .. it's intelligent enough to install the
>dependencies. in case there is an error then probably there is a dependent
>rpm missing in the list supplied.
According to the rpm man page it *does* reorder installation of multiple
rpms in order to satisfy dependencies. rpm may not be as smart as dpkg/apt
but it isn't completely moronic.
Biju
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