RPM wildcard question

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/24/2013 09:42 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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. :-)

Um, no. Rpm automatically orders all installs and removals based on 
package dependencies. If the rpm calculated order is wrong, it simply 
means the packages are buggy (ie missing dependencies)

	- Panu -