[TriLUG] good newbie book

[rpjday]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Robert Wagoner wrote:
> 
> > relevant package names, then issue
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 ...
> > 
> > and go have dinner while it grinds through them all, instead of
> > installing
> > one at a time.
> 
> ooh, spiff. :)  poking through the man page, it looks like the default 
> behavior in rpm is to re-order the packages to satisfy dependencies, so i 
> shouldn't even have to figure out what order they need to go in...  i'll 
> have to pick something random to add on and give that one a try, too.

i'm pretty sure that ordering of rpm filenames is not an issue if
you put all of them as arguments to a single rpm command.

there have been cases where two rpm files are actually dependent on
one another (i recall seeing a case like this months ago, but can't
remember what they were -- perhaps compiler and libs??)

obviously, putting the args in either order is not going to solve the 
problem, which is why i'm pretty sure that, as long as you put all
of the files as arguments to a single command, any internal 
dependencies shouldn't be a problem and ordering is irrelevant.

i'm willing to be corrected on this point, however.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training