[Yum] createrep question

Kidwell,jr, Jack Jack_Kidwelljr at cable.comcast.com
Fri Mar 19 21:15:52 UTC 2010


The package worked in rpm, but not in yum.

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[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.baseurl.org] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:03 PM
To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
Subject: Re: [Yum] createrep question

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Kidwell,jr, Jack wrote:
>
>> Seth,
>> 
>> Thank you for patiently seeing this through. I'm the guy with the
>> yum-unfriendly COTS RPM. The vendor saw the light and fixed their
RPM,
>> so it's yummy!
>
> glad to hear it - I'm still just a little bit curious how they were
building 
> it before, though.

Mmmh, a package without sourcerpm tag rings a certain jRPM bell in my 
head. OTOH rpm should notice its missing and fake it if it otherwise
looks 
like a binary package, but how exactly all this works depends on rpm 
version.

 	- Panu -
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