[otrs] Upgrading using YUM 2.1.4 -> 2.1.6

[Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)]

Dehnert James Sr wrote:

>>> Does anyone know of a YUM repo that has 2.1.6 available?
>>
>> If you really want to use yum (I wouldn't know why rpm -Uvh  
>> wouldn't do) you can download the rpm and use 'yum localinstall  
>> otrs*.rpm'. Since the dependencies are already installed this  
>> wouldn't be any different from 'rpm -U otrs*.rpm' though (except  
>> for an entry in yum.log).
>
> I only want to use yum since that is what I used to install the  
> running version.  I usually get the source and install that in it's  
> default locations, because, IMHO, I have found that the packages  
> sometimes sometimes want to go in /usr/bin or something similar, as  
> opposed to /usr/local/bin, or the places that the source want to  
> install.  With OTRS using /opt/otrs this seems like much less of an  
> issue, but I want to be consistent.

Whether you install the rpm using rpm or yum really makes no  
difference. Yum is really just a dependency-resolving fronted to rpm.  
I wasn't talking about an install from source, just about two  
different ways to install the rpm.

Nils Breunese.
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