Re: Write support?

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Sam Vilain wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want an equivalent of Solaris' `installf' command[1] for RPM, and I 
> thought that this module would be the place to start.  Also `removef' (see 
> the same link).
> 
> Has anyone ever considered trying to update the RPM database via Perl-RPM?
> 
> 1. - http://docsrv.caldera.com/cgi-bin/man/man?installf+1M
> 
You mean, you want to install rpms using Perl-RPM, right?

Perl-RPM does not seem to support this (moreover, it does not even
work with rpm 4.1,4.2). Chip said he wanted to implement this
in perl-RPM2, not sure what the present status is. It would be
definitely *nice* to have this.

Gerald