On 3/27/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > On 3/26/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>>>> Is it possible with yum and with only one instruction to install not a > >>>>>>> certain package but all its dependencies? > >>>>>> That is the normal behaviour. You ask for one package, and if you > >>>>>> already have all the dependencies you will get one package. If you > >>>>>> haven't got them all you may find that it says it needs to install 3 or > >>>>>> more. It always asks permission before installing. > >>>>> Thanks, Anne, but it is not what I wanted to mean: imagine that the > >>>>> package x.rpm has, as dependencies, the packages y.rpm and z.rpm; in > >>>>> this case, I would like to install only the dependencies, i.e., only > >>>>> y.rpm and z.rpm, and NOT x.rpm. > >>>>> > >>>> All I can suggest, then, is to ask yum for the original package, then when it > >>>> lists the necessaries, reject the install and give a new yum command listing > >>>> the required dependency packages. > >>>> > >>>> It seems a rather strange requirement, so telling the reason for the > >>>> requirement may spark of some better solution from a more knowledgeable > >>>> poster. > >>> Taking my example above, x.rpm is not supplied by any repository; > >>> then, a simple method to install it is > >>> > >>> yum localinstall x.rpm > >>> > >>> With this procedure, I will know the dependencies, which I will install before > >>> > >>> rpm -ihv x.rpm > >>> > >>> as "yum localinstall" is not able to install x.rpm due to the fact > >>> that x.rpm is not signed. > >> Two ways of installing x.rpm plus its dependencies: > >> > >> First way, doesn't involve changing any config files: > >> # (echo config gpgcheck 0; echo localinstall x.rpm; echo run) | yum -y > >> shell > >> > >> (that's all one line) > >> > >> > >> Second way, involves file edits first: > >> Edit /etc/yum.conf and change gpgcheck=1 to gpgcheck=0 > >> Edit all of your /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files and add gpgcheck=1 to any > >> repo entry that doesn't have a gpgcheck entry. > >> > >> Then you should just be able to do: > >> # yum localinstall x.rpm > > > > Thanks, Paul. I will try to automate your first solution with a script. > > Another possibility you could consider would be to install Thomas > Springer's YUM GPG Signature Check Plugin > (http://www.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~springer/yum-plugin/), which adds a > --gpgcheck option to yum, so you can do: > > # yum --gpgcheck=0 localinstall x.rpm Thanks, Paul, but ideally the option '--gpgcheck=0' should act *only* on the local rpms and *not* on their dependencies. Paul
