On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> 
>     I have an NFS directory that contains all of the RPM updates that you can 
>download from any mirror.  On a freshly installed system (same version as the RPMs), 
>can I simply run 'rpm -Uvh NFS_DIR/*' and assume it'll update only those packages 
>installed on that new system, or will it attempt to install all of the RPMs that are 
>in the directory?
> 

rpm -Uhv will install/upgrade all of the RPMs.
You need to use rpm -Fvh which updates only those RPMs which are currently 
installed. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list 
will not be updated.

Werner




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