Thread: Meltemi - Lightweight Linux based os from Nokia
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zimon is offline zimon
2011-10-04 , 13:29
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#106
Originally Posted by don_falcone View Post
rpm itself doesn't support transactions, but the Fedora package management does.
Well, you cannot perhaps separate the package format and the lowest level package handling program. (rpm and rpm, deb and dpkg)

rpm has transactions support well tested, widely and long time used. Actually I do not know if other rpm-distributions have enabled transactions support, but the code is there to take:
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US...e/ch06s02.html
To set up an RPM transaction, you don't have to do much. All you need to do is pass more than one RPM package on the rpm command line.