But I feel good old unix tar.gz is flexible than rpm What do you say Thaths
robin s chatterjee wrote:
> As far as I have used it rpm is smart enought to handle this situation.
> Thanks
> Robin
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> Sudhakar Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/15/2000 03:54:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [LIH] How to install rpms?
>
> 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
>
> Thaths
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