Re: Getting 3rd party RPM's via an OS installer?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro wrote:

> One simple fix is to have "knots" and "bows".  Each loop of a bow is a
> topological sort; each knot is an inflection point that cordons off  
> one
> tsort from another.
>
> So the OS would go into bow 0, and most of the time, all the other  
> RPM's
> would go into bow 1.  Or you could use them bows like BASIC line  
> numbers -
> starting with the OS in bow 1000, allowing room for things to come in
> front and behind.
>
> Then as you compute your tsorts, you just catenate them together in  
> bow
> order to get your ordered list of rpm's to install.

This works for ordering, not for dependency closure.

73 de Jeff