Installing unsigned packages with yum

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Dec 30 19:28:02 UTC 2006


On Saturday 30 December 2006 18:43, Tim wrote:
> 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.
>
That's reassuring.  I wasn't sure whether yum would actually know about the 
rpm installed in this way - I thought it would, but there was just the 
possibility that rpm didn't write in the way that yum expects - IYSWIM :-)

Anne
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