CentOS 5.3

[Bryan O'Neal]

I thought that was the point of an RMP based package manager, if you
manually install the package it still checks for dependencies and puts the
package in the list.  However installing from a downloaded RPM usually means
you could not find it in your repositories and thus updates are not
maintained in those repositories and thus not updated by yum which looks at
those repositories.

Did I get that right? 

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Dean
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 1:53 PM
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Subject: Re: CentOS 5.3


On Apr 1, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:

>
> yum list | grep openmpi     # (checking to see if it is installed)
> yum list | grep lam         # (checking to see if it is installed)

I think this will only find packages which were installed by yum.

If you download an RPM to a machine (wget, scp, etc) and install it using
the 'rpm' command, it will not be found by 'yum list'.  Seems like a big
oversight, but that was my experience on some RHEL5 machines I was an admin
for.  (I used RHEL4 more, and it still used up2date.  yum is much superior
but I didn't have as much experience with it.)