HowTo auto-update rpm deps with yum or up2date?

[Stuart Sears]

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Matt England wrote:
> I should have been more specific in my original post:  I am a software
> developer and will be releasing .rpm packages that may or may not get
> updated in a general package/up2date/yum repo; please presume that my
> .rpm package will only be downloadable as a single file via a 'wget'
> acquisition.  I want my users/installers of this package to be able to
> automatically acquire and install my .rpm-package dependencies via
> yum/up2date/something-else.
> 
> Is there a way to do this?  I'm looking for solutions for both Fedora
> and Redhat/RHEL.

yes. As long as your dependencies *are* in external yum repos.

yum localinstall mypackage-1.0-2.i386.rpm

will look for any required dependencies on external yum repositories.

this works fine on Fedora Core 4 and 5 (and probably Centos as well, as
they use yum for updates)

Regards

Stuart

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