[PLUG] RPM installing an RPM

[chris (fool) mccraw]

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" <herda05 at gmail.com> 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
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