Last time I had to do something like that, I shipped a shell script with a bunch of rpm's embedded in it (in a shell archive), which first extracted them and then installed them serially (where needed) and in a group (where not needed).
This worked well enough to circumvent the problem. This was 2001. Sad to hear things haven't improved in that world, yet! On Dec 3, 2014 5:56 PM, "Daniel Herrington" <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Can you have RPM call a third party installer that then calls RPM? > I tried this a month ago and could not get around a lock error on the rpm > db, I googled and saw an email thread form some years ago where the reply > was no. I'm wondering if I just didn't look hard enough. I eventually > abandoned for a self-extracting installer, but thought I'd revisit the > problem > > thanks, > > -- > Daniel B. Herrington > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
