[Yum] need a good comparison between yum and rh, current, nrh

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:18:36AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> > Yeah, without actually typing in 
> > yum install PACKAGE
> > how do you get yum to install required packages?
> 
> yum install foo
> 
> will list all the packages required to install foo and then ask you if
> you'd like to install all of those packages.

Maybe he meant to ask how to force all your systems to install a new
package.

A common way to solve this problem is:

Let all your systems have a local package installed, say "mylocal".
Update "mylocal" when you want, add a "Requires: gimp" if you want
to pull in "gimp" the next update check on all systems.

Of course, you can have different "mylocal"-type packages, for
different system profiles.

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