yum vs. rpm to install occasional products

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/30/2011 10:24 AM, Jon Ingason wrote:
> 2011-01-30 16:00, Jerry Feldman skrev:
>> I recently installed Oracle-XE using yum --nogpgcheck localinstall
>> oracle...rpm. No problem except that I screwed up the configuration. My
>> coworker told me that I should use rpm(8) because the installation
>> manual specified it rather than yum(8). My question is that is there any
>> specific advantage using yum(8) over rpm(8).
>>
>>
> The main difference is that yum(8) try to solve dependency while rpm(8) 
> does not.

On 01/30/2011 10:30 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Nope. No real differences except that Jon pointed out. Also,
> localinstall isn't necessary anymore. Just type good ole' install and
> point it to a local file and it works fine.
>
> If you think you'll be installing an RPM on a regular basis it's very
> easy to setup a local repository. I did this for some packages I built
> myself as well as all the packages from the F14 install DVD and it
> made it very easy to install on all my home computers. That way if you
> get an updated RPM you can put it in your repo and it should get
> picked up on your next update.
>
> I even setup NFS on the computer I host the local repo on so now all
> the other computers just see it as another repository.
>
No, I don't install too many packages. This was for a virtual machine.
The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that
I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8).

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