HowTo auto-update rpm deps with yum or up2date?

[Tim]

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.

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