How to install the LibreOffice beta 3 rpm package

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sun Nov 28 14:59:42 UTC 2010


Hiisi wrote:
> It seems to me that yum apriori tries to localinstall from current
> directory and
> if (it fails)
> then {
> 	install from repos
> }
> Am I correct here?

No quite.  The code from yum-3.2.28 looks like this:

    for arg in userlist:
        if (arg.endswith('.rpm') and (yum.misc.re_remote_url(arg) or
                                      os.path.exists(arg))):
            self.localInstall(filelist=[arg])
            continue # it was something on disk and it ended in rpm 
                     # no matter what we don't go looking at repos
        try:
            self.install(pattern=arg)
        ...

So, yum only attempts to use localinstall if the argument given a)
ends with .rpm and b) is either a url or an existing file¹.

¹ Technically using os.path.exists() means that if you had a dir named
foo.rpm and passed that as an argument to yum install, it would
attempt to localinstall it and fail with the error "Cannot open:
foo.rpm. Skipping."

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