[Yum] Creating complete repository

Chris Kittlitz ckittlitz at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 18:02:19 UTC 2013


That's great!  But I am concerned about the warning that says it is
maintained for legacy reasons only.  Does repoquery provide the same
functionality?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:45:19 -0400
> Chris Kittlitz <ckittlitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nope - reinstall only reinstalls the package you specify.  It will
> > not reinstall all the dependencies.
> >
>
> man yum
>  resolvedep
>               Is used to list packages providing the specified
> dependencies, at most one package is listed per dependency. This
> command is maintained  for legacy reasons only, use repoquery instead.
>
> --installroot=root
>               Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which
> all packages will be installed. Think of this like doing "chroot
> <root> yum"  except using --installroot allows yum to work before the
> chroot is created.  Note: You may also want to use the option
> --releasever=/ when creating the installroot as otherwise the
> $releasever value is taken from the rpmdb within the installroot (and
> thus.  will  be  empty,  before  cre‐ ation). Configuration Option:
> installroot
>
>
> Can you generate a list of rpms you require?
> if yes then:
> yum install resolvedep --downloadonly --installroot=/some/path
> --releasever=CentOsN `cat your-rpm-list`
>
>
> --
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