On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Syam <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've installed some rpm packages manually, sometimes because I wanted to > test something before it hit the official repos. I've never observed any > inconsistency problems while doing so. I was under the impression that the > 'rpm' command will also update the yum databases so everything will work > fine. Am I wrong here? >
Yum has its own db which holds additional information. It is complimentary to RPM db and useful for undo or automatic dependency cleanup. http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumDB It is generally recommended that you never use RPM directly for reasons outlined at http://illiterat.livejournal.com/7834.html On a modern system, yum install foo.rpm should be as fast as rpm -ivh foo.rpm. If not, that should be reported as a bug. Rahul
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