Can yum detect dependencies installed via pip?

Question

Environment is CentOS 7.3.1611.

I deploy an application that depends on a few packages that seem to have disappeared from the EPEL. These packages are:

python-turbocheetah
python-cherrypy2
python-turbojson
python-paste-script
python-peak-rules
python-turbokid

Not sure why they've disappeared from the repositories, so that's another question. Luckily, I am still able to install these packages using pip. However, yum doesn't seem to be able to detect that they've been installed, so installing the application's RPM still fails on missing dependencies.

Is there any way to get yum to detect that these packages are actually installed?

Thanks!

You can if necessary fake RPM database entries with "shim" packages e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/370001/rpm-database-not-seeing-file-installed-as-part-of-rpm/370068#370068 — thrig, Aug 11 '17 at 18:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '17 at 18:19

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yum can only detect things which are installed with rpm or tools that use it (such as yum itself). As pip does not use rpm, there is no way for yum to know about anything that pip manages.

answered Aug 11 '17 at 18:19

DopeGhoti

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Ah, I was worried this was the case, but didn't know anything about the underlying mechanisms. Thank you. – Robert Kelly Aug 11 '17 at 18:22

Can yum detect dependencies installed via pip?

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