That is an interesting way to do it! Thanks! Mark > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:18:36AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > > Yeah, without actually typing in > > > yum install PACKAGE > > > how do you get yum to install required packages? > > > > yum install foo > > > > will list all the packages required to install foo and then ask you if > > you'd like to install all of those packages. > > Maybe he meant to ask how to force all your systems to install a new > package. > > A common way to solve this problem is: > > Let all your systems have a local package installed, say "mylocal". > Update "mylocal" when you want, add a "Requires: gimp" if you want > to pull in "gimp" the next update check on all systems. > > Of course, you can have different "mylocal"-type packages, for > different system profiles. > > -- > -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
