The Super RPM?

[Jan Claeys]

Op dinsdag 31-07-2007 om 15:45 uur [tijdzone +0700], schreef Hamish
Robertson:
> Currently when installing a package, smart looks at the big library in
> the sky and works out where the rpm is, and which dependancies you'll
> need, then go fetches everything and installs it in the right order.
> It's fantastic...but what I was thinking was...what if we could freeze
> the packages and the synaptic install script into a single file? This
> super rpm would be able to be distributed on usb sticks, attached in
> emails and installed on the same distro (if it was created from a
> clean install) with a simple double click (opeing it with smart).
> 
> Er...I'll try that again, say A want to install package A. Package A
> needs Package B and C to run. So Smart goes and feches packages A B
> and C then archives it with a script into a archive. A super RPM. If
> I'm on the same distro, double clicking would open smart and install
> it correctly. It would only work for the specific distro but if would
> make installing for that distro a double click affair.
> 
> Does something already do this? Is this a good idea? How on earth do I
> make this a reality?

Apt-on-CD might be along the lines of what you're looking for:
<http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/>

It's not exactly the single-file-double-click solution you describe, but
it allows to distribute partial apt/dpkg/deb based repositories on CD.

I think it doesn't work with *.rpm packages though...


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Jan Claeys