> Hmm... somhow using yum to install a local package feels wrong... Hmm... > think ill acctually have to write some prototype stuff, then. > > rpm-depsolve, here i come! :P > > Always wanted to create some "core" utility... > yum install /some/path/to/an/rpm yum looks for that file if it can't find it, it exits and laughs at the user, as it should be. :) if it finds it then it reads in the header and other information and makes a special local repository in memory for it. it puts the package into a transaction set (just like a normal package) and checks it. If it can't find a resolution it looks through the repositories (as normal) and adds packages that do resolve it. I've done some thinking about it recently and it's really not all that special of a case. The trick is tracking the package state in a sane manner for putting in the transaction. -sv
