yum based install

[Randal, Phil]

Yum localinstall is explained here:

 
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Using_yum_localinstall_package
name

I guess specifying dependencies in your RPM would help in that case, but
that in itself is a can of worms.

Phil

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Phil Randal
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Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Julian Field
> Sent: 24 May 2007 17:36
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: yum based install
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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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