DNF is completly unable to act with local packages

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 16:11:30 UTC 2015


On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 16:35:41 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

> simple example:
> 
> * on my machines i try to uninstall all unneeded stuff
> * koji download for testing
> * a dozen of subpackages
> * instead compare 5 minutes which one i need click
>    on all 5 downloadlinks and "dnf update *.rpm"
>    (if it would work) would only update as told and
>    should only pull one of them if it is a new dependency

Wouldn't it be much more convenient to wget/curl download into a local
repo?

"rpm -Fvh rpm*.rpm" is the most simple way to test updating to
downloaded packages that do not need to add anything else from any
repo.


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