Calling an RPM from within an RPM

[ethanshore]

hello all.

I did a search on this in the forum and the word "rpm" was ignored for being too short. Not very helpful.

So, I am packaging an installation of a software stack within an rpm. This stack calls some other rpm's. At that point the process hangs because the parent rpm has a lock on the rpm database, so the subsequent install goes into an internal waiting state.

Isn't there some way to invoke an rpm installation with a "no lock" flag, so that I can have a parent rpm calling children rpm's?

It seems like such a limitation of the package manager to not allow this bundling.

thanks.

[oldcpu]

I've never packaged an rpm before, but can you not set up the "other" rpms as dependencies, forcing their installation first? As a user (and not as an rpm packager) that is what I have always observed being done.

[ethanshore]

Yes, I suppose I can set it up as multiple rpm's that rely on each other.
That's a little disappointing though. I have an installation package that already works and I just want to shove it into an rpm and send it on it's way.

Thanks for the response.

[bigtomrodney]

Setting the other packages as dependencies would be the standard way to do it. They're generally called meta-packages.