On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:01 -0500, Matt England wrote: > Yes, but what happens when the <newpackage> is not available via an > up2date repository on the internet? Does the above command still > work? Try it and see, then you'll know how others will experience trying to install your application. Doing a yum localinstall can install a file that's not on any repo, but can't install needed dependencies that aren't available through the repos the user has available to them. > 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. I think you'd have to ensure that anything your file depends on is a part of the usual files available from a repo. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
