Install rpm : irpm

[Fernando Pérez]

vincent delft wrote:

> I've just released a project to simplify the RPM installation process.
> irpm will install automatically all the dependencies.
> And based on python ...
> 
> the link is http://sourceforge.net/projects/irpm
> (cvs, forum and mailing list available)
> 
> I'm looking for some help (web, doc, tests, ...)

Well, Mandrake has urpmi which is GPLd, so I assume you are doing this for 
your own education. In that case, I'd look at the urpmi code to learn how 
they addressed various issues. This can be a bit of a messy problem, so 
looking at their code might help; it's pretty robust in general.

Cheers,

f.

ps. The drawback is that urpmi is in perl, but for me it's one of those 
problems where I just use the tool. It works, and I'm not going to rewrite it 
just so it's in python, esp. since I don't really need to hack inside of it.