On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 16/01/2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > In a console: > > > > > > $ wget -c http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm > > > $ rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm > > > > last time i looked, you could do all that in one step: > > > > # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm > > Yeah, see my other reply from two minutes before yours. ;) There > has been a thread on fedora-devel some time ago where Panu mentioned > that this feature would/might be dropped from RPM. Further, it's a > bad habit of mine to suggest wget/curl plus rpm because with that > combination, a copy of the downloaded package is saved in local dir > and can be reused in error conditions, whereas rpm works with a tmp > file. (not so important for tiny files, though) true enough. i actually would never use the above shortcut for anything but the most minor of downloads and installs. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
