[Yum] Re: Question about yum as an rpm helper ...

C.Lee Taylor leet at leenx.co.za
Sat Nov 15 19:55:18 UTC 2003


>>    Okay, I download an rpm, but it was 101 deps, and I don't know where 
>> to start to find half these other rpms ... would it be possible to use 
>> yum to download the other deps/rpms if they all exists in someones repo 
>> with was in your yum.conf?

>
>It's not implemented now but it is something I'd like to have in for the
>new iteration of things. (2.1+)
	Great ... I take it this is after metadata doc finish and libyum complete ... or a little closer?

>I think what he's asking is he's got an rpm on disk, not in a
> repository.
	Yeah, I was called a 'he' on the net ... now I am really kewl ... ;-^

> he wants to yum install foo-1.1-1.i386.rpm
	Well, yum install http://aoy.foo.bar/foo-1.1-1.i386.rpm and friends would also be kewl ... 

> and have yum get the rest of the deps from it's repos.
	That is what I would think would be the most lazy thing I could do ....

	And, in the distant far furture, Mozilla could could what to do with an rpm link, and if the rpm is compiled correctly, it could install straight from the browser ... oh all the security problems that we might have ... but then with RH9 and FC1, using a root app ask for the password and does things right ( at least we can hope ) ...

Mailed
Lee

P.S. Excellent stuff ... keep it up guys ... no need for sleep ....







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