On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 13:39 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I guess I've never understood how this is helpful. In order
to use it,
> you'd first need to configure the repo, which means creating/editing a
> config file. And you go to that effort so that yum can resolve a handful
> of inter-subpackage deps for you?
A large handful (build a gcc sometime), that you have to pick and download.
And yum should have --repofrompath like repoquery does (I thought it did,
actually). i.e.:
yum upgrade
--repofrompath=test,http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1965799
Currently you have to do:
yum upgrade
--tmprepo=http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1965799/repodata/repomd.xml
...I'm looking at updating the tmprepo plugin so you could do something
like:
yum upgrade --tmprepo=koji:roland,1965799
> I've just never had any trouble running yum localinstall
against the
> resulting rpms.
Nor have I, after either spending some time operating my mouse to download
the right ones, and trying three different times to have it tell me I
missed one I forgot was actually a dependency of the one I needed to test,
or else spending the same 10 minutes again every time (I know, I should
just write it down) to figure out how to make wget or curl download the
whole directory full without filling my world with files called
'index.html?M=D.2' or following too many links and trying to download the
entire koji site.
Note that in rawhide/3.2.26 yum you can just paste the http URLs to yum
install/localinstall. Of course having real repos. will still be much
nicer, IMNSHO.
--
James Antill - james(a)fedoraproject.org
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