This alias should be a great default addition to the bashrc... as it helps install packages to a CentOS system from the mounted install CD before you get networking up and running... alias localyum='yum --disablerepo=* localinstall' Does Red Hat care about Requests for Enhancement? or is filing a bug pointless? FC
2012/7/23 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:> This alias should be a great default addition to the bashrc... as it > helps install packages to a CentOS system from the mounted install CD > before you get networking up and running... > > alias localyum='yum --disablerepo=* localinstall' > > Does Red Hat care about Requests for Enhancement? or is filing a bug pointless? > > FCSince the latest version of yum obsolete (in Fedora at least so I believe in CentOS it is/will be the same) the localinstall option, I believe that using this alias is useless. Fabien
2012/7/23 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>:> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Fabien Archambault > <fabien.archambault at univ-amu.fr> wrote: >> Since the latest version of yum obsolete the localinstall option, I >> believe that using this alias is useless. > > I have used yum's localinstall option on my CenOS 6.3 box... and it worked...This option is kept for legacy purpose [1] (or man yum). It works yet but will be removed in the future releases (years ago) I believe. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/yum> > FC > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos