The *safe* thing is to do "rpm --freshen --test -v *.rpm" this will tell you exactly what rpm would do, rather than actually do it. (--upgrade upgrades existing rpm's that are installed and installs any rpm's that have not been installed. --freshen only installs new versions of existing rpms. I usually run --upgrade on the packages I know I want to upgrade)
If you are satisfied with what rpm tells you it would do, then just run "rpm --freshen *.rpm" Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology & Infrastructure - Consulting & Integration COMPAQ, part of the new HP 3 Richardson Place North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113, Australia Phone *: +61-2-9022-1670 Mobile *: +61-411-254-513 Fax 7: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail * : martin.visserAThp.com -----Original Message----- From: Voytek Eymont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 4 October 2002 10:21 PM To: SLUG Subject: RE: [SLUG] updating RH7.3 from a errata CD, how ?? ** Reply to note from "Visser, Martin (Sydney)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:07:29 +1000 > Whoops, a bit trigger happy RH7.3 was actually released in May. You > can > simply do "rpm --upgrade *.rpm" on the directory on your CD to see if > there are any valid update RPMs, however I still suggest to get the > one's that are qualified for RH7.3 how do I determine the qualified ones ? > As Redhat 7.3 was released on 13 July, I doubt that any of the RPMs on > the CD will be an update for 7.3 (From the date on the RPMS dir on your > CD it was probably spun on 17 July). nope, it was spun on 15/08 > Current Rh7.3 updates can be found at > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/redhat/updates/7.3/ Voytek Eymont SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd http://www.sbt.net.au/links/ phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
