[svlug] RH dependencies, not using up2date

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 01:50:14PM -0800, Isaiah Weiner wrote:
> I can't see the content of the bug; my personal bugzilla account is
> apparently not privileged enough.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that RH had marked the bug as "private bug",
preventing others from seeing it. Makes me wonder why they did that.

Just in case you were curious, the bug was:
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Opened by Marc MERLIN (marc_soft at merlins.org)  	 on 2002-07-28 13:36 EST  	[reply]  	 

This is filed against RPM since I had to file it against some package, but the
fix doesn't really below in RPM itself. Feel free to re-assign.
Also, I don't quite expect that you're going to say "what a great idea, how come
we didn't think about it", I expect that you are aware of this, but I'm told
there is no RFE filed, so there you go :-)

There is no mechanism I know of in RH and RPM tools to install a package and all
its dependencies from a location of my choice.
Something like
rpm-wrapper --getdepends -i /disk/all7.3rpms/package.rpm
or
rpm-wrapper --getdepends -i ftp://localftpserver.domain.tld/all7.3rpms/package.rpm

up2date has the mechanism, but will not pull from anything else than you, which
is a waste of your resources and mine.

Most other distributions have already fixed this with
apt-rpm, urpmi and of course apt-get
Red Hat is the only major distribution where installing packages and their
dependencies is such a nightmare.

Quite frankly, I avoid using Red Hat mostly for that reason, if you were to fix
it, you'd be ahead.
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In RH's credit, they closed all my bugs, even without addressing them (i.e.
your bug is more than X years old, re-open if it was important), but left
the above one open.

Marc
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