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

[C.Lee Taylor]

>> >   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+)

>
>Along the same vein, yum could read a list of deps from a source rpm, a
>file, stdin, etc.
>
>yum installdeps foo.src.rpm  <-- just reading the deps from the src.rpm
>rpm -qRp *.rpm | sort -u | yum installdeps -
>lynx -source http://....rpm | yum installrpm -

	Okay, now that makes my head hurt ... but I think that I get the idea ... just let if grow ...

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Lee