Really? Yum checks a repo for dependencies automatically?!! ;-) To clarify, I didn't mean that this: rpm install 'perl(Net::Server::Multiplex)' would work :-( I meant that rpm lets you name a capability or provides/requires as such. I'm happy that to know that yum allows this too. Joshua On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:48:14AM -0400, Sean Dilda wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Joshua Jensen joshua@xxxxxxxx "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"
