Hi y'all, A question. I upgraded by laptop to F12, which went fine, and then proceeded to "dress" it by adding on a handful of non-repo RPMs as I'm guessing many people do. This particular time I added e.g. the VirtualBox rpms, as I wanted to experiment with alternatives to non-open VMware. Sun provides an F12 RPM (not in a repo, of course, grrr) so I grabbed it and proceeded to try a straight rpm -Uvh install. Naturally it had a string of a dozen dependencies in its dependency tree, and I found myself right back in RPM hell, helped a little bit by yum (I could do yum provides to find rpms that filled in the missing pieces easily enough, and then do a yum -y install) but RPM hell nontheless. Which leads me to my query. I'm guessing that this isn't an uncommon situation -- a homebuilt RPM or RPM provided by a third party that won't just "install" because it isn't in a repo, even when all of its dependencies ARE in connected repos. Can yum do that? e.g. is there a mode or add-on that lets one: yum install VirtualBox-whatever.rpm so that yum creates a dependency list from the rpm itself and then does its yum-thing and looks in its repos for a list of rpms to resolve the recursive dependency tree, then installs the whole thing for you? rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
