On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 3:54 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > > On 11/2/23 06:36, Christopher wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:50 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 11:05:33AM -0400, Christopher wrote: > >>> It's also not clear when this option would take effect. Would it take > >>> effect if I did `dnf install /path/to/local/file` or just when I did > >> > >> no, because that looks up that file in your repos and downloads the repo > >> version of the package. > > > > That's not what I've seen. I've used this to explicitly install the > > Google Chrome RPM before from a local path... before the Chrome repo > > was set up, and it did not re-download the RPM from any repo. `dnf > > install ./google-chrome-stable.rpm`. I remember this because it was > > surprising to me that I didn't need to specify 'localinstall', that > > regular 'install' just worked. Ever since, I've assumed that > > 'localinstall' was just an alias for 'install' and didn't behave any > > differently. Perhaps that assumption is wrong, but that appeared to be > > the behavior I observed at the time. > > This was ambiguous and I think you were both considering different meanings. > > You can dnf install a local rpm file, but you can also give dnf a path > to an actual file (e.g. /usr/bin/bash) that can be installed and dnf > will find and install the package that contains it. > > # dnf install /usr/bin/bash > Package bash-5.2.15-3.fc38.x86_64 is already installed.
I was definitely referring to /path/to/existing/local/package.rpm, but I now understand the other behavior for /path/to/missing/file/to/find/and/install. Thank you for the clarification! That makes sense now. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
