yum or dnf question

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 12:48:36 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 10:31 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 12/19/2014 10:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > On Dec 19, 2014 1:55 AM, "Joachim Backes" <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
> > <mailto:joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> is it possible to run "yum/dnf update [<some pkgs>]" (from the official
> >> repos) together with some rpm file residing on my box (for example
> >> downloaded from koji)?
> > 
> > Yes. I do it all the time.
> > 
> > mkdir blah
> > cd blah
> > curl -Os blah.rpm &
> > dnf upgrade *rpm
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> that means I have to download *all* rpms before running update/upgrade?

yum will download those RPMs it needs to resolve dependencies (from the
repos you have configured). Preumably dnf does the same.

poc



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