RPM wildcard question

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/24/2013 11:12 AM, Doug issued this missive:
> On 01/24/2013 12:26 PM, Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
>> Expansion of the asterisk is handled by the shell.  To see what such a
>> command
>> will do, issue the command
>>           echo *.rpm
>> You will see the full list of RPMs.
> I thank all of you folks who have answered.  It turns out that the code
> I suggested--
>                    rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> --works fine.  I looked in your fine book on RPM, but could not find it
> in there.  since it is a draft, albeit about 2 years old now, perhaps the
> authors will add this command to the text.
>
> I posted here because of the wide use of RPMs in Fedora, altho I an
> using PCLOS, and cannot use YUM! (PCLOS uses RPMs, but except
> for out-of-repo installs, they are all handled by Synaptic.  It's only
> the programs that are not in the repo that require the command
> line operation.)

I've used the *.rpm thing often in the past. Be warned, however, that
the shell expands the "*" bit and passes a list of RPMs to rpm. You can
hit some dependency order issues because of that.

For example, it wants to update "widget-devel". That depends on having
"widget" updated first, but "widget" appears in the expanded filelist
AFTER "widget-devel" and the update fails. Just do

	rpm -Uvh widget.rpm widget-devel.rpm

(i.e. specify the RPMs in the correcto order) separately first. You can
then the "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" again. It'll whine that "widget" and "widget-
devel" have already been updated, but you knew that. :-)
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