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Sergey Alexeev
Sergey Alexeev

Reputation: 35

Can I install different packages from my own rpm-package?

Can I install different packages from my own rpm-package (that's my task, other variants, like shell-script is denied) on CentOS 7? I'm trying to understand spec-file format of rpmbuild, so I use some minimal configuration of this file. I'm create an rpm-package (let's call it test.rpm), launch it with "rpm -i test.rpm" and see that "yum install" from %post is launch, but stuck in "Running transaction" level of installation. SELINUX is disabled.

Here is my test.spec:

Name: test_script_name
Summary: It's just a test_script_summary
Version: 0.1 
Release: 1
Group: Applications/Internet
License: GPL 
BuildArch: noarch

%description
A test_script_description.

%prep 

%build

%install

%clean

%post
yum install -y lynx

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)

%changelog
* Tue Dec 08 2015 test test <[email protected]>
- test_script_changelog!

I'm build my test.rpm with: 

rpmbuild --bb test.spec

Launch it with:

rpm -i test.rpm

And here is a part of yum output that shown during installation:

Total download size: 1.5 M
Installed size: 5.4 M
Downloading packages:
(1/2): centos-indexhtml-7-9.el7.centos.noarch.rpm                                               |  92 kB  00:00:00     
(2/2): lynx-2.8.8-0.3.dev15.el7.x86_64.rpm                                                      | 1.4 MB  00:00:00     
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                  2.4 MB/s | 1.5 MB  00:00:00     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.

That's all of the output. Package didn't installed. Please, help me. Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2044

Answers (2)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54455

Addressing OP's question: no, you cannot install one rpm from within another rpm. To do what you want, you can list other packages as dependencies using the Requires tag.

Further reading:

RPM dependencies are discussed here:

As a rule, you should use yum for installing (even locally built packages) to keep its database up to date.

Upvotes: 2

Sild
Sild

Reputation: 3443

If you will define this package as Requirements:

Requires: lynx

Then it will be installed as dependencies after the following command:

yum localinstall test.rpm

look the question about autoinstallation dependencies

Upvotes: 3

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