Installing unsigned packages with yum

[Tim]

Tim:
>> If you've manually downloaded it, and the one package can be installed
>> without any worries about sorting out dependencies, you might as well
>> use rpm.  Using the yum command isn't gaining you anything.


Anne Wilson:
> Fair enough.  I'm always a bit reluctant to mix methods

That really isn't a case of mixing methods.  When you use YUM, it uses
the RPM database to help with determining dependencies, at *that* time.
Next time you use YUM, it works on the current condition of the RPM
database, which would have been updated if your installed something
using RPM.  YUM is just acting as an agent to play with RPM.

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