[ydl-gen] New Daylight Savings Time

[Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай]

Dear Derick,

       Derick, I am well. Thank you for asking. How are you?

       Yes I do remember you. You have always been a great help to many
people including myself.

       I had actually changed my yum code to search that directory and that
is when I had gotten the errors, so I downloaded it and this is where my
ignorance kicked in high gear, never having downloaded and installed an rpm
without yum before. :-p

       Anyway, I want to thank you again as the second part of the message
helped me immensely. I had tried the man pages earlier but for some reason
had not seen the proper way to install it. Once again you have helped me
very much and so again I thank you Derick.
-- 
Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай
http://nstanosheck.WordPress.com

On Sat Mar 10 06:21:58 MST 2007, Derick Centeno wrote:


> Hi Deacon Nikolai:
>
> How are you? Exchanges between us have spanned across a great deal of
> time; hopefully you'll remember.
>
> If you will permit me to clarify for you the use of yum, it may be
> helpful.
>
> The explanation addressing your complaint is that yum is designed and
> optimized to download, search and install rpms from various YDL mirrors
> located across the net.
> If you go to /etc/yum.conf and read the code it's as clear as day there;
> in other words yum is not looking at the single rpm file you downloaded
> manually. Yum doesn't "see" it because the rpms which Owen posted is not
> within the mirrors. Owen posted it only in one place and yum is not
> looking there and has no instructions how to do so.
>
> Ok?
>
> So how to install the rpm you downloaded? Very simple, there is a
> command surprisingly enough called rpm which also exists within YDL. Do
> the following:
>
> #rpm -ivh thenameofthefile.rpm
>
> if there is any message announcing that there is a conflict, then try:
>
> #rpm -ivh --force thenameofthefile.rpm
>
> Good luck... Derick
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай wrote:
>
> > Dear Owen,
> >
> > Sorry to be a pain, but in YDL 3 I was getting errors when trying to
> > install from that directory using YUM, could you tell me the simplest
> > way to install the RPM for Yellow Dog Linux 3.x please? Thank you in
> > advance!
> > --
> > Νικολάος Διάκονος/Диакон Николай
> > http://nstanosheck.WordPress.com
>
>
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