Pardon my ignorance, but if I update or install a package via rpm will YUM pick that up in subsequent updates? Or should I be using YUM for installs if I plan to use it for updates?
-- <<JAV>>
If you do a yum update it will grab any future updates
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:26:24 -0400 "Joe Polk" listuser@javelinux.com disait:
Pardon my ignorance, but if I update or install a package via rpm will YUM pick that up in subsequent updates? Or should I be using YUM for installs if I plan to use it for updates?
Hello back, Joe ;)
Yes. But it's better to use yum all the time. It's more safe, easier and without any dependancies problems ;) In general if you have to install a RPM by hand, it's because your yum repositories don't contains it.
Yes. But it's better to use yum all the time. It's more safe, easier and without any dependancies problems ;)
Yum uses RPM for most of its handy-work. In the end, it doesnt matter if you install an rpm by hand or with the yum tool. Yum just makes things quicker and easier.
People usually dont get into real "dep hell" with RPM unless they "use the --force, Luke."
Okay, just checking. I just wanted to be sure it would pick up a manually installed rpm. I like rpm and I have had very little issue with it before but as was stated, YUM would at least handle dep issues.
-- <<JAV>>
---------- Original Message ----------- From: Rocky McGaugh rocky-lists@mcgaugh.org To: centos@caosity.org Sent: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:14:26 -0600 Subject: Re: [Centos] Question about YUM
Yes. But it's better to use yum all the time. It's more safe, easier and without any dependancies problems ;)
Yum uses RPM for most of its handy-work. In the end, it doesnt matter if you install an rpm by hand or with the yum tool. Yum just makes things quicker and easier.
People usually dont get into real "dep hell" with RPM unless they "use the --force, Luke."
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If you install a package via Yum and there are dependencies, it will find those dependencies and install them for you as well. Makes it a little easier than downloading an rpm, trying to install, rpm telling you you need something else, downloading that, then trying again (ie. dependency hell)
Also, if you maintain your own "internal" mirror, our company does this for RHEL, you can setup your own custom Yum channel for internal packages. We've done this to make it easier to update all our custom packages for our nodes.
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:14:26 -0600 Rocky McGaugh rocky-lists@mcgaugh.org disait:
Yum uses RPM for most of its handy-work. In the end, it doesnt matter if you install an rpm by hand or with the yum tool. Yum just makes things quicker and easier. People usually dont get into real "dep hell" with RPM unless they "use
the --force, Luke."
And the --nodeps ! So in fact, it's more safe because when you install an RPM by hand, "one day", you'll do a --nodeps because of X or Y obscur reasons, and "one day" the distribution will be broken ( i don't mean it's not reversible).
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:46 +0100, Martin Hamant wrote:
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:14:26 -0600 Rocky McGaugh rocky-lists@mcgaugh.org disait:
Yum uses RPM for most of its handy-work. In the end, it doesnt matter if you install an rpm by hand or with the yum tool. Yum just makes things quicker and easier. People usually dont get into real "dep hell" with RPM unless they "use
the --force, Luke."
And the --nodeps ! So in fact, it's more safe because when you install an RPM by hand, "one day", you'll do a --nodeps because of X or Y obscur reasons, and "one day" the distribution will be broken ( i don't mean it's not reversible).
in yum 2.1.X releases you can do:
yum install /some/file/on/disk/package.rpm
it will install that rpm and resolve dependencies from the available repositiories
-sv
Yum uses RPM for most of its handy-work. In the end, it doesnt matter if you install an rpm by hand or with the yum tool. Yum just makes things quicker and easier. People usually dont get into real "dep hell" with RPM unless they "use
the --force, Luke."
And the --nodeps ! So in fact, it's more safe because when you install an RPM by hand, "one day", you'll do a --nodeps because of X or Y obscur reasons, and "one day" the distribution will be broken ( i don't mean it's not reversible).
in yum 2.1.X releases you can do:
yum install /some/file/on/disk/package.rpm
it will install that rpm and resolve dependencies from the available repositiories
CentOS is still using yum 2.0.8 though. The duration of which is unknown.
yum install /some/file/on/disk/package.rpm
it will install that rpm and resolve dependencies from the available repositiories
CentOS is still using yum 2.0.8 though. The duration of which is unknown.
I know, but I thought I'd point it out, anyway.
-sv
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