Joshua Jensen wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:03:48PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > >>On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 16:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> >>>When did the "yum install 'perl(Net::Server::Multiplex)'" syntax start >>>working? That rules. >> >>yum 2.2.1 and yum 2.3.[1|2] >> >>yum install /path/to/some/file will work, too. >> > > Cool! RPM has supported this for a sometime, didn't know that yum did. > ?? Since its inception, rpm has supported installing a local copy of a file like that. It is, in part, what rpm was designed to do. However, rpm does not do what yum does. rpm attempts to install the file and if the dependencies are not met, it complains and exits without installing the package. With yum, if there are unmet dependencies, yum will check your configured repositories and, if possible, download and install any missing dependencies you have. This is much more advanced than anything rpm does.
