Re: Installing an RPM from stdin

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 4:30 AM, John Dallaway wrote:

> I need a script to install an RPM package presented on the standard
> input. I can _query_ a package as follows:
>
>    cat mypackage.rpm | rpm -qpl /dev/stdin

Yep. Using "-" instead of "/dev/stdin" should work too.

> But attempts to _install_ a package in this way fail silently.

Yep. During install, the pkg file is reopened for hysterical anaconda  
reasons, and
so stdin won't "work".

> Are there any workarounds (other than saving the stream to a temporary
> file)?

Nope.

73 de Jeff