On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:44:29AM -0400, Todd Tomaino wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to install an rpm from within another rpm. Why would you want to do that? <snip> > > When I add the rpm install in %post and attempt to install I get the > following error: > > warning: waiting for transaction lock > error: can't create transaction lock > > One way to avoid this is by executing "rm /var/lock/rpm/transaction" in > %post prior to installing the rpm. However, removing the transaction > lock was not discussed in the thread I mentioned, and seems like a bad > practise. > > Is this an acceptable method? Of course not. Not if you want to have any guarantees about the consistency and correctness of the rpm database. > Is there a better way to solve this problem? Don't do it? But, if you must, spawn a child that waits for that file to no longer exist and then installs the other rpms. -- lfr 0/0
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