RPM roadmapping

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 13:37:37 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:46 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Kevin Kofler [28/07/2007 18:41] :
> >
> > Am I the only one who things that being able to rpm -Uvh http://....rpm is a 
> > nice feature?
> 
> No but then again, I'll live with
> wget http://....rpm -O foo && rpm -Uvh foo

Change that to a pipe and you've sold me:

$ wget -O - http://whatever | rpm -qpi -

On closer inspection, this almost works already, if you invoke it as
'rpm -qpi /dev/stdin'.  Explicit - for stdin, or just implicit stdin
with no args, would just be gravy.

- ajax




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