installing an rpm from another rpm's %post script

[devzero2000]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hey rpm-ers,
>
> I'm trying to create an RPM package that contains other RPM
> packages and installs those sub-packages as part of the %post
> script.   However when I try this I get a lock failure:
>
> warning: waiting for transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
>
> Is there some way to do a recursive RPM install?
>
> For more details:
>
> When you run "rpm -U foo.rpm" it installs a bunch of RPM files.
> So foo.rpm installs /usr/lib/foo/packages/foo-{1,2,3}.rpm
> Then in the foo.rpm %post script I want to:
>
>  rpm -U foo-1.rpm foo-2.rpm foo-3.rpm
>
> Is there a good way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

I hope that, for @rpm.org policy, i can post this ref

http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-list/2008-December/000075.html

on the subject.


> -derek
>
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