Re: install rpm within an rpm...continued

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On May 19, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:

> 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.

You are misguided.

> > 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.

Spawning a child with a "sleep N" is way way hackier than removing  
the lock.

73 de Jeff