Re: Installing dependencies only

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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


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