Hey,

So here's a stupid question, why does ODA need to know about the <filter>
parsing stuff. Doesn't the relocation of RPMs happen and then PackageBest
runs over whatever is in /tftpboot and do it's "magic"?

--tjn

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jason B. wrote:

> I can give you answers about what is currently in CVS...
>
>
> >- Can the ODA filter tag take a directory as part of the filename?  So can
> >   I have something like:
>
> no... you can't
>
>
> >    packages/switcher/RPMS/rh7.3/modules-oscar-...rpm
> >    packages/switcher/RPMS/rh8.0/modules-oscar-...rpm
> >    packages/switcher/RPMS/rh9.0/modules-oscar-...rpm
> >
> >- If so, does the copy down to /tftpboot/rpm still happen properly?
> >   i.e., will only the RPM(s) that I have selected by the filter tag get
> >   copied to /tftpboot/rpm?
>
> no... it copies everything in packages/*/RPMS/* to /tftpboot/rpm
>
> >What's the recommended usage here?
>
> Unfortunately, I've had to deal with this kind of thing already.  Perl-Tk
> and Perl-Qt are dependent on perl versions (which are specific to distro
> versions).  The only way I got around with perl-Qt was to install
> differently-named RPMs... perl-Qt or perl-Qt-5.6.  Perl-Tk was slightly
> different, since it is a prereq and manually installs its own RPM.  In its
> case, it detects the perl version and copies the right RPM to /tftpboot/rpm
> (IIRC) and installs from there.  They are named the same, but are copied
> from different directories (see oscar/share/prereqs/perl-Tk/media).
>
> Jason
>
>
>
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