newbie guide to asterisk on f11?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:12 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:16 -0400 (EDT)
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >   is this making any sense?
> >
> > Definitely. However, I have gotten into the habit after
> > encountering the same sort of thing many times of using yum search
> > or a gui tool like yumex to search for all things asterisk (or
> > whatever I'm interested in) and I just install all packages that
> > seem vaguely related in the descriptions :-).
> >
> > Usually makes for less surprise.
> >
> > I notice one thing that some packages do is create a
> > dummy package with the base name of the product and
> > make it depend on all the other packages, but I've
> > never been able to deduce the rules for that - I suspect
> > personal whim of the packagers.
>
> This is called a metapackage, and I've been told they're frowned on in
> Fedora.

  that's how "qemu" is currently implemented:

$ rpm -qR qemu
qemu-user = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-x86 = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-sparc = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-arm = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-cris = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-sh4 = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-m68k = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-mips = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-system-ppc = 2:0.10-16.fc11
qemu-img = 2:0.10-16.fc11
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
$ rpm -ql qemu
(contains no files)
$

rday
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