OLPC-Update + RPMs WAS:Re: OLPC XO Opera browser as Sugar activity

[Ian Daniher]

What's the logic for having updates erase all manually installed RPMs?
A couple of Support-Gangers and myself were talking about ways to remedy
this.
We came up with the following:

   - alias "rpm -i $FILE" to "rpm -i $FILE & cp FILE $HOME/.rpms$/FILE" with
   a script on update that runs "rpm -i $HOME/.rpms/*"
   - have a script that constantly monitors $HOME/.bash_history for "yum
   install $PROGRAM" formatted files, then echos the name of $PROGRAM to
   $HOME/.rpms/installed, but removes it from that list if/when it sees "yum
   remove $PROGRAM" On update, yum install $(cat $HOME/.rpms/installed) is run.
   - rpm -qa > $HOME/.rpms/clean could be run on install
   - rpm -qa > $HOME/.rpms/custom could be run before update
   - a simple file compare program (python or python-parsed diff output)
   would be used to generate a file with which yum install $(cat $FILE) could
   be used

thoughts?

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Ian Daniher
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