yum based install

[Charles Lacroix]

On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:36, Julian Field wrote:
> 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?

Basicly, you need to make sure your requirements are in the yum repository and 
yum does the rest :)

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