yum based install

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:
> Hugo van der Kooij spake the following on 5/24/2007 3:16 AM:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems rpmforge will have (or does have by now ;-) a perl-Filesys-Df
>> package.
>>
>> So the only thing one would need to use yum to install MS would be a
>> repository with the mailscanner RPM in then for the usual distro's.
>>
>> There is an issue however that needs to be addressed in the MS rpm file
>> to make it work. There is no dependency for perl-Filesys-Df in the MS
>> RPM. I noticed the dependency only when I started MS that it needed
>> Filesys/Df.pm to run.
>>
>> I understand Julian is no fan of packagers adding MS to their
>> repositories. If keeping it up-to-date and getting some usage figures is
>> the main issue then I think it would be almost trivial to setup a
>> repository so yum can fetch MS from the right site and Julian will still
>> have an up-to-date repository and the download statistics.
>>
>> Hugo.
>>
>>     
> If Julian doesn't want the MailScanner rpm on a repo, you could always do a
> yum localinstall with proper repo info in place.
>   
Do I need to do anything to make yum installs work more easily?

Jules

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