Re: What tools to use for multipackage download and install?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
>
>  
>
> > We have some software for Linux, mainly Red Hat 7.3 or 9, distributed 
> > across the net in the form of multiple, interdependent rpm packages. A 
> > user will typically install one "application" package that utilises a 
> > number of custom "base" or "library" packages. These in turn rely on 
> > "OS" packages, as well as some external freeware packages that are 
> > somewhat non-standard and may or may not be installed already; we also 
> > provide our own versions of these in case they are needed.
> >    
>
> Have a look at either yum (http://linux.duke.edu/yum/) or apt-rpm. Yum
> will allow things like yum install foo. [ ... ]
>  
Seems to me that setting up tools like these will be far too complex. 
Like I said, I am not the one that will install the packages, and I 
won't be able to "prepare" the systems in any way before the actual 
installation, with the possible exception of providing a 3rd party 
installer via a *simple* install step (like one rpm command.)


> HTH,
>
> .......Tom
>
>
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