Package Rebuilding

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Tue Oct 7 23:13:05 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> shouldn't yum
> install <package name> pull in and install all the dependencies provided you
> pointed yum to the package on your hard drive? What do I have wrong?

No, that would attempt to load the package from a remote repository. I
think you mean

yum localinstall <path to rpm file>

That will install an rpm and use the repositories to attempt to
resolve any dependencies the rpm has.

Dave




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