On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:26 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 21:38 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Is there any plans for integrating rpm with yum - so that rpm would ask
> "you need dependancy foo, bar, baz.so in order to install this package,
> shall i ask yum to fetch them for you? (y/n)"
Instead of integrating yum into rpm, just use a tool (such as yum
itself) to install your packages instead of rpm. I don't know offhand
if yum already supports this, but if not, it should. ;-)
The graphical tools like system-install-packages and friends should also
then integrate with yum.
I'm sure the maintainers will accept patches for such a feature. ;-)
The question becomes how to do this sensibly.
yum install /some/path/to/an/rpm
that's possible
except I get an equal number of requests for:
yum install /some/file/that/some/package/in/a/repository/provides.
it's not impossible to check for but it means searching harder.
the biggest limitation is time.
I'm one guy.
-sv