Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-04 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 19:42, Julian Gomez wrote: > >up2date is your friend. You should not try to download the errata > >yourself unless there's a good reason you can't use up2date. > > I know, but is a problem. Try then apt or yum instead? http://freshrpms.net/ http://www.linux.duke.edu

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-04 Thread Julian Gomez
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:37:19AM -0500, Ed Wilts spoke thusly: >On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:47:19PM +0800, Julian Gomez wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Edwin Robertson spoke thusly: >> >You didn't do -Fvh with the kernel did you? If so, that would cause any >> >version of Red

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-03 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:47:19PM +0800, Julian Gomez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Edwin Robertson spoke thusly: > >> I've had a machine which I planned to put into production (Samba) -- and > >> just now tried to run the full 'rpm -Fvh' against all the latest errata. > >> Un

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-03 Thread Julian Gomez
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:59:04AM -0400, Edwin Robertson spoke thusly: >Using rpm to upgrade your running kernel is a really bad idea no matter >what version of Red Hat, especially if you are using scsi. Basically what Yes, SCSI. That's the only difference between my current desktops and the se

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-02 Thread Edwin Robertson
Using rpm to upgrade your running kernel is a really bad idea no matter what version of Red Hat, especially if you are using scsi. Basically what it does is rip the modules for the running kernel right out and install the new kernel modules. In the case of scsi, you can write the initrd because y

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-02 Thread Julian Gomez
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Edwin Robertson spoke thusly: >> I've had a machine which I planned to put into production (Samba) -- and >> just now tried to run the full 'rpm -Fvh' against all the latest errata. >> Unfortunately for me, eventhough 'rpm --test -F *.rpm' worked without an

Re: RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-02 Thread Edwin Robertson
> I've had a machine which I planned to put into production (Samba) -- and > just now tried to run the full 'rpm -Fvh' against all the latest errata. > Unfortunately for me, eventhough 'rpm --test -F *.rpm' worked without any > errors, doing 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' returned ALOT of segfaulted package upda

RedHat v9 breakage with RPM updates (segfaults aplenty) ?

2003-07-02 Thread Julian Gomez
Hello, I've had a machine which I planned to put into production (Samba) -- and just now tried to run the full 'rpm -Fvh' against all the latest errata. Unfortunately for me, eventhough 'rpm --test -F *.rpm' worked without any errors, doing 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' returned ALOT of segfaulted package upda

Re: rpm updates

2002-03-11 Thread Lorris J. Woods
> 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 o

Re: rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Werner Puschitz wrote: > 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. Thank you very much! -- H | "Life is the art o

Re: rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Werner Puschitz
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 i

rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
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

Re: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates version numbers??????

2001-11-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, > Just a side question. Did you (or anyone else) ever try to rebuild the > instimage dir? Any good docs on this that you can recommend? It seems I am in the wrong thread ;-). Bye, Leonard.

Re: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates version numbers??????

2001-11-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Vincent, > That means that I'm following the patches for every RH > version very closely since we auto-modify the base distributions on the install > servers in order to provide pre-patched installable distributions.. (except for > RH6.2, of course, since the new rh6.2 packages

rpm4 on RH 6 (was: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates version numbers??????)

2001-11-14 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:01:35PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote: > P.S. > > I can definitly sympathise with the rpm4 problem with rh6.2 - at WC we > rebuild all the recent redhat errata on a rpm3 system for folding back into > our kickstart installs. Lather, Rinse, Repeat. I'm curious - I have n

Re: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates version numbers??????

2001-11-14 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:01:35PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 5:04am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: [...] > I can't speak to the general issue except to say that the basic scheme being > that 'bigger' is 'newer'. But in this particular case there was already a > sendmail

Re: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates versionnumbers??????

2001-11-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 5:04am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: > > Hello list, hello redhat packagers (if any are reading this list), > [...] > Here is what I mean (from RHSA-2001:106-08): > > RH7.1 RH7.0 RH6.2 > Prev. sendmail verion:8.11.6-1.7

Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates versionnumbers??????

2001-11-14 Thread Vincent Cojot
Hello list, hello redhat packagers (if any are reading this list), I work for a european e-broker where we have over 200 production and dev servers with RH 6.1, 6.2, 7.1 and soon 7.2.. (we bought quite a few rh boxed sets but no support, unfortunately). In order to support this massive

RE: File system corruption after RPM Updates

2001-01-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Jan-2001 Chuck Carson opined: > > I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I > have a > cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever. > I > applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the > kernel > updates. Several of t

File system corruption after RPM Updates

2001-01-04 Thread Chuck Carson
I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I have a cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever. I applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the kernel updates. Several of them bombed because they were dependent upon X librari

Re: RPM Updates since 6.1 release

2000-03-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:28:51AM +1100, Darryl Harvey wrote: > Where do I go to get the definitive list of RPM updates (or security > updates) since the release of RH6.1 For packages: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.1/ ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.1/ (mirror, gen

Re: RPM Updates since 6.1 release

2000-03-19 Thread Aaron Turner
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/ On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote: > Where do I go to get the definitive list of RPM updates (or security > updates) since the release of RH6.1 -- Aaron Turner, Core Developer http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/ Linux Knowledg

RPM Updates since 6.1 release

2000-03-19 Thread Darryl Harvey
Where do I go to get the definitive list of RPM updates (or security updates) since the release of RH6.1 Thanks Darryl -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: rpm updates via ftp

2000-03-01 Thread Bret Hughes
take a look at autorpm it will do this and more. Bret Steve wrote: > > Is there a way to update more than 1 rpm at a time via ftp. I just installed > 6.1 on a fresh box and wanted to update the rpm's vi updates.redhat.com and it > seems very tedious to do it 1 at a time. > > TIA > Steve > > -

rpm updates via ftp

2000-03-01 Thread Steve
Is there a way to update more than 1 rpm at a time via ftp. I just installed 6.1 on a fresh box and wanted to update the rpm's vi updates.redhat.com and it seems very tedious to do it 1 at a time. TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.