Redhat – Logs during rpm installation

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I'm able to obtain logs in /var/log/message while installing a package using yum, but I'm not able to find logs when a package is installed using rpm. Is there any option to log rpm installation/updation and upgradation. So that when a package is installed or updated using rpm it must be logged into /var/log/messages or some other directory.

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AFAIK that external logging is a yum extra and not available natively with rpm.

You can query the RPM database, rpm -qa --last gives a history of when the current RPM packages were installed, but no information on package deletes.

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Rpm -ivh, failed dependency already installed

The -1: token is the Epoch tag, so it looks like your RPM may have been built with an Epoch equaling 1. If that's the case, foo-lib-cpp-devel's dependency on foo must include the Epoch, like so:

Requires: foo = 1:0.7.0-1

Or, using macros:

Requires: foo = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}

Mysql – How to install MariaDB rpms in CentOS 6.4 using rpm (not yum cmd) + handling thesql-libs conflicts

You don't. You use yum so that it handles this situation cleanly. It operates perfectly well offline using RPM packages directly, provided that all the necessary dependencies are available or already installed.

Download the appropriate MariaDB RPMs to your USB stick or DVD-ROM.

yumdownloader MariaDB-client MariaDB-common MariaDB-compat MariaDB-devel MariaDB-server MariaDB-shared

Take your USB stick or DVD-ROM to the target machine and copy them in.

Install them:

yum --disablerepo=* -y install MariaDB-*.rpm

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