[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] BUG: network support is limited to install/upgrade (#524)

Jeff Johnson notifications at github.com
Mon Aug 20 16:58:45 UTC 2018


One issue that needs to be addressed is lack of "network support" (as in the ability to download files with a curl/wget helper) in an environment where networking is deliberately not configured or limited by firewalls or other security protections as in mock/Koji chroot's.

Most of the realities of how/where rpm is used are entirely unsolvable within rpm. Well duh.

There are two issues that I can see that remain however:

* how to express rpm dependencies on helpers like curl dynamically so that, say, rpm does not pick up a boatload of mostly useless prerequisites to ensure functionality through static dependencies.
(hint: probe dependencies on curl/wget file paths, either for existence, or slightly better, on executability)

* reworking the macro helper glue to provide a better message if functionality is unavailable

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