On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:49 -0400, James Bowes wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:40:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2007 11:29:44 Neal Becker wrote: > > > yum install. Does localinstall do something different? > > > > 'yum install' will search your repos for the string you passed on the > > cli. 'yum localinstall' will look for a file on the local file system > > based > > on the string you give it. > > install will check for local packages as well.
but only by filename, not by package name. so if the argument passed to yum install doesn't END in .rpm then it won't pay much attention to it. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
