Re: 'yum group' configuration - perhaps

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:27 +0000, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This may be a yum question or it may be an rpm question but i'll got for 
> yum for now.
> 
> Basically i have packages that are provided by a third party that go to 
> make up the 'application' - There are in fact 4 different types of 
> applications that these rpms can make up depending on which ones are 
> installed. Alas this third party cant build rpm's correctly and they are 
> not dependent on each other nor are they built in such a way tha if you 
> install them all at once they sort themselves out, they need to be 
> installed in a 'sequence'
> 
> So....
> 
> Can i somehow tell yum in some way that in order to install application 
> X install rpms a, b and c in the order b, a and then c ?
> 
> If not then i think the only way around this so i can install the app 
> with a yum install X is to create a single rpm that has the other 
> packages as dependencies and fix it that way but i thought there must be 
> a better way?
> 
> I hope that makes sense, and alas getting the vendor to fix it their end 
> it futile.
> 
if there's no interdependency or ordering information at all then you
may have to do the above. Alternatively, you can try using a yum shell
script

something like
echo -e "install pkg1\ninstall pkg2\ninstall pkg3\ninstall pkg4\nrun\n"
| yum shell

-sv