On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:42 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote: > I'm using FC6 to cook up a custom internal distro and want to use only a > subset of the rpms considered required by the vanilla FC dependencies. > Basically I'm rolling a custom initrd image and am looking for some info > regarding how compatible yum is vs rpm at a command line option level. > > 1 - is there a yum equivalent to rpm's "--test" option ? yes look at tsflags in yum.conf man page > 2a - is there a yum equivalent to rpm's "--force" or "--nodeps" options > ? Is the answer still "never under any circumstances" ? yes, that is still the answer. > 2b - if I was going to try to extend the existing yum to add in > "--force", "--nodeps" and "--test", is there a quick guide for where to > do that ? I'm still having some problems navigating the twisty passages > of yum and all its python pieces. look at depsolve.py initActionTs() for how test is implemented. That's ultimately the same place you'd want to do incredibly stupid things like --nodeps. > 3 - lastly, is there any hitchhikers' guide to how to extend yum or its > internals of how it works under the hood ? If you want to do it via plugins that's over here: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/WritingYumPlugins At the risk of getting further into this than I want to be: Why do you believe that --nodeps and --force are going to help you? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
