On May 1, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote: > Michael Jones: > >> Is there a way to get all of the RPM packages that I need into one >> file (e.g., tar.gz file) to satisfy the dependency of another .RPM >> package? I do offline installations. My Linux servers use old, >> out-dated repositories on the network that I have no control of. I >> have to make many trips to rpmfind.net. I'd like to get every >> dependency (and all related dependencies) in one transfer. >
What you are asking for is "transitive closure", i.e. the minimum set of all packages with no unresolved dependencies. > The Smart package manager <http://smartpm.github.io/smart/> had > some features like this, so you could download all to a tarball. > > It was called a "pack", and could be any supported archive format. > Then you could install from the pack, and it would unpack them... > There's a rather short script here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37927066/collect-all-rpm-dependencies-to-deploy-a-project/38002943#38002943 that might help (assuming you have an installed system with no unresolved dependencies where you can run the script. The script may not be perfect, but its Pretty Damn Close without all the complexities of multilib and epoch and obsoletes-with-later installs hth 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
